Talk:Solid State Disk

= Scheduler = This part should be rewritten. Basically I would say that every other scheduler then CFQ is better suited for SSDs. If it's NOOP or DEADLINE. Some benchmark with different use cases, like kernel compile, write sequential, openoffice startup time, would help to make a proper decision. --Flow 17:08, 9 July 2011 (GMT)

/var/cache
what about /var/cache? i'm not sure how much this gets written, but my /var/cache has items like: does this mean each time i use a man page it'll write it to the cache/disk? openafs mostly uses memcache and i think this only ends up caching pages when it's out of memory. anyone know if it's similar for these other programs/caches?
 * apache2
 * cups
 * eix
 * fonts
 * man
 * openafs
 * samba
 * yeah, so i ended up just cramming all of /var onto my networked raid array. it's only accessible by me, but i might want to add more security soon (encryption). Oo.et.oO 22:16, 23 March 2012 (GMT)

ssd as primary/only drive
It's time we also start to record how best to setup a machine with solely one SSD. many new highend laptops are coming configured this way. Most of the other items apply. but not everything can be stored in tmpfs as it's... temporary
 * i added a couple of blurbs on this to the main page, but i don't have a system with one drive. i honestly don't know what i would do. wait for SSDs to allow more writes? Oo.et.oO 22:17, 23 March 2012 (GMT)

heaviest writes on my system seem to be in home
i have conky setup to show me the I/O load on the drive i'm about to copy over to SSD. it has pretty continuous writes. this has to be a heavier load than portage, et al. i'm trying to find the culprits but it looks like it's mostly firefox, hddtemp, nsplugginwrapper, and beagled.

it's hard to pinpoint straight away whom is writing to the disk. lsof can tell you whom has read/write locks on files in a given filesystem

trucated / example list

trucated /home example list

best way to kill those errors from logging is to investigate them. i also might not need them across reboots, so maybe i can symlink that file to somewhere in tmpfs? right now i DO have a local and/or network storage, so maybe i can put the system logs on there. /var/spool probably has to stay local as should /var/run

= Terminology =

There's some kind of discussion around the world.

SSD should mean «Solid State Drive », and NOT «Solid State Disk ». In fact they are not physically disks.

Even if it could appear perfectionist, the term is more exact and could be accepted. It will also accord with the Wikipedia term.