signor_rossi;517778 Wrote: > No wonder that everything flies on your laptop when you go from an old > (probably) 4200rpm hard disk to a SSD. :-) > Might I ask if there is anything special to observe when to going from > normal hard disk to SSD?
I actually still have a Windows XP MCE partition that Grub can let me boot into on this machine. So I can (but rarely do) log into that OS using the same SSD drive. The difference in performance is still hugely in favour of Ubuntu, partly due to the fact that the Windows partition had been well-used by my wife and had become very slow with the typical Windows "ageing" process (or "bit rot," as it is ironically termed). As to use of SSD drives, I treated it just like a rotating HDD and didn't do anything special. I believe write-times tend to slow down over the life of a SDD due to the fact that the drive cannot distinguish a deleted file from one that is still indexed. This eventually causes the controller to have to do a lot of shuffling around of blocks in order to write some new files to the drive. The cure for this is support of the TRIM command (both in the OS and the SSD). It's not there in Linux quite yet, but it is in Windows 7. However, that issue really doesn't impact SSD read speeds which is mainly what gives the very fast bootup and application launch times. -- dsdreamer ---------------------- "Dreamer, easy in the chair that really fits you..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dsdreamer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12588 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75346 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
