Dear TDE users,
This maybe unrelated to TDE. I wonder whether anybody has experience installing openSUSE 15.5 (along TDE of course) on a Intel SSD 2 TB. I was thinking about something like this:
https://www.cdw.com/product/wd-blue-sa510-wds200t3b0a-ssd-2-tb-sata-6gb-s/75...
The system is a Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop. If anybody has any other recommendations for a SSD to be used on a similar laptop, please let me know. Also, is there really any speed advantage to using the corresponding mechanical hard drive:
https://www.cdw.com/product/wd-blue-wd20spzx-hard-drive-2-tb-sata-6gb-s/5077...
in such a system?
Thanks,
Gianluca
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Anno domini 14:15:05 Thu, 6 Jun 2024 -0700 (PDT) Gianluca Interlandi via tde-users scripsit:
Dear TDE users,
This maybe unrelated to TDE. I wonder whether anybody has experience installing openSUSE 15.5 (along TDE of course) on a Intel SSD 2 TB. I was thinking about something like this:
https://www.cdw.com/product/wd-blue-sa510-wds200t3b0a-ssd-2-tb-sata-6gb-s/75...
The system is a Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop. If anybody has any other recommendations for a SSD to be used on a similar laptop, please let me know. Also, is there really any speed advantage to using the corresponding mechanical hard drive:
https://www.cdw.com/product/wd-blue-wd20spzx-hard-drive-2-tb-sata-6gb-s/5077...
Can't comment on the selected SSD, but IMO the notebookbook is about the T60/T61 era, so SATA II will be the top speed --> you can expect it to gain > 4x speed increase. But that's for about any SSD you find on the market. You might want to vamp up the ram, too - well, if you manage to find ram of that time.
Nik
in such a system?
Thanks,
Gianluca
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Gianluca Interlandi via tde-users wrote:
The system is a Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop. If anybody has any other recommendations for a SSD to be used on a similar laptop, please let me know. Also, is there really any speed advantage to using the corresponding mechanical hard drive:
https://www.cdw.com/product/wd-blue-wd20spzx-hard-drive-2-tb-sata-6gb-s/5077...
in such a system?
The WD blue are good, I prefer the red, but I have also few blue disks. You will gain on disk speed (as Nik mentioned probably 4x), so it is good idea. I only wonder why you would take such large disk.
Also on few old laptops from the same era firefox is sluggish (in case you intend to use it for browsing). You can try a live image first, to see if it performs.
Regarding openSUSE - I don't know. I found it always too overloaded with things that one probably does not need.
On Fri, 7 Jun 2024, deloptes via tde-users wrote:
Gianluca Interlandi via tde-users wrote:
The system is a Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop. If anybody has any other recommendations for a SSD to be used on a similar laptop, please let me know. Also, is there really any speed advantage to using the corresponding mechanical hard drive:
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cdw.com/product/wd-blue-wd20spzx-har...
in such a system?
The WD blue are good, I prefer the red, but I have also few blue disks.
Just wondering, what is the advantage of red vs blue in case of WD SSD? I know that in case of the mechanical drives WD Blue has a feature that spins the disk down after 8 seconds of inactivity while for the Reds it does that after 300 seconds (although it can often be changed) along with vibration reduction. But for SSD, what is the advantage?
You will gain on disk speed (as Nik mentioned probably 4x), so it is good idea. I only wonder why you would take such large disk.
I decided to go for the largest size that still allows me to boot from (legacy) bios, without the need to create a GPT label (although I know it is possible to boot a larger disk from BIOS, but I want to keep it simple). Sometimes I copy a lot of simulation trajectories, so it may help having extra space.
One thing that keeps me away from mechanical hard disks is that a lot of the 2.5" disks come as SRM instead of CRM. I also like to turn off the head parking (spinning down) feature that causes the load count to increase quickly on the OS drive, but this is sometimes tricky.
Gianluca
Also on few old laptops from the same era firefox is sluggish (in case you intend to use it for browsing). You can try a live image first, to see if it performs.
Regarding openSUSE - I don't know. I found it always too overloaded with things that one probably does not need.
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Gianluca Interlandi via tde-users wrote:
Just wondering, what is the advantage of red vs blue in case of WD SSD? I know that in case of the mechanical drives WD Blue has a feature that spins the disk down after 8 seconds of inactivity while for the Reds it does that after 300 seconds (although it can often be changed) along with vibration reduction. But for SSD, what is the advantage?
Afaik Blue is intended for Desktops and Red for NAS (especially the Red NAS version)
You will gain on disk speed (as Nik mentioned probably 4x), so it is good idea. I only wonder why you would take such large disk.
I decided to go for the largest size that still allows me to boot from (legacy) bios, without the need to create a GPT label (although I know it is possible to boot a larger disk from BIOS, but I want to keep it simple). Sometimes I copy a lot of simulation trajectories, so it may help having extra space.
I was just curious, because if you don't have backup of the drive (RAID or whatever) and you store a lot of data on the drive, this is becoming a problem.
One thing that keeps me away from mechanical hard disks is that a lot of the 2.5" disks come as SRM instead of CRM. I also like to turn off the head parking (spinning down) feature that causes the load count to increase quickly on the OS drive, but this is sometimes tricky.
Well ... the spinning/mechanical disks are becoming something like the tape drives from 15y ago. Few years ago I updated all the drives (some were 10+y old) and I use mechanical in RAID only for the movies and documents. The rest is on SSD. Both types are WD
Model Family: WD Blue / Red / Green SSDs Model Family: Western Digital Red
Device Model: WDC WD20EFRX-68AX9N0 (old drives being decommissioned) Device Model: WDC WD20EFRX-68EUZN0 (old drives being decommissioned) Device Model: WDC WD60EFPX-68C5ZN0 (since last y. replacing 3x2TB above) Device Model: WDC WDS100T1R0A-68A4W0 (SSD 1TB) Device Model: WDC WDS200T1R0A-68A4W0 (SSD 2TB)
AFAIR EFRX is CRM, but could be I am wrong.
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