[tde-users] Re: Anybody here using an SSD?

said deloptes: | So with one disk you could put the / and swap on that, as you mention. | | Usually the first time you boot from SSD there is the Wow-effect, | because it boots instantly :D | | I hope it helped It does, as do the comments from everyone else, and as soon as I hit send on this note I'll push the button to buy the WD blue 500gb ($60 at amazon). From what I've been able to read, the failures are more likely during writes, which does make me wonder as to the wisdom of putting /swap on the SSD. I do have 32gb of memory, so swapping isn't as frequent as it used to be, but with just / on the SSD I'd be writing to it only when I install new software or there's an update. It does remind me a little of the old PC days with the 640k RAM limit. One of the tricks for those of us with more memory was at boot to create a virtual drive -- a ramdisk -- and copy, among other things, command.com to it, then set COMSPEC to point to that copy. It did speed things up quite a bit. Boot time is interesting, but I don't reboot often enough for that to be important to me beyond being amazed by a really fast time between the popup errors from that damned xdg thing when I start TDE. (Was there ever a way discovered to make that go away? I do not care what xdg thinks of my menu.) But a significant speed improvement in program execution would be welcome. I don't game (nor am I impressed with Bell Delphine), and loading a thousand pictures at a time, which I sometimes have to do, is never going to be really fast because I'm not putting my photo files on an SSD. But if programs in general run considerably faster it seems worth it. Still trying to figure out a way that apt upgrade would upgrade both an SSD boot and an installation on a conventional hard drive, because in the event of an SSD failure I'd like to be able to pop the case, move the connector, and reboot with no other intervention. (I don't guess I'd even have to alter the fstab, either, because the one on the hard drive would be good for boots from it.) Not sure whether this can be done. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/