From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 3 13:25:20 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44E561065673 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 13:25:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luke@foolishgames.com) Received: from qmta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21D508FC08 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 13:25:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta17.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.73]) by qmta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id SdA11f0061afHeLA3dCAtd; Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:12:10 +0000 Received: from stargazer.midnightbsd.org ([70.91.226.201]) by omta17.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id SdC81f0084MLobJ8ddC9BW; Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:12:10 +0000 Received: from [10.1.10.166] ([10.1.10.166]) (authenticated bits=0) by stargazer.midnightbsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id oA3DC6vV040846 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Wed, 3 Nov 2010 09:12:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from luke@foolishgames.com) X-Habeas-Swe-2: brightly anticipated In-Reply-To: <4CD04AEC.8040607@aldan.algebra.com> X-Habeas-Swe-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-Swe-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-Swe-1: winter into spring Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) X-Habeas-Swe-9: mark in spam to . Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 09:12:06 -0400 X-Habeas-Swe-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas Message-Id: <190E58BD-6D27-4522-848D-C7E04FEC4B98@foolishgames.com> To: "Mikhail T." X-Habeas-Swe-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Lucas Holt References: <4CD04AEC.8040607@aldan.algebra.com> X-Habeas-Swe-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Habeas-Swe-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) Cc: fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using an SSD "disk" for / X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:25:20 -0000 On Nov 2, 2010, at 1:31 PM, Mikhail T. wrote: > Hello! >=20 > I'm setting up a new system and would like to use a moderate (64Gb or = 128Gb) SSD-drive to boot from. >=20 > This will house /, /var, /home, and the /usr/local and thus see plenty = of activity, whenever src and ports are updated, or "world" is remade, = or packages are upgraded. I'm hoping, these operations would be much = faster, than with a regular HDD. >=20 > However, people mention, that SSDs develop /severe/ performance = degradation if written to A LOT -- unless some SDD-specific operation = (TRIM) is used, but not all Operating Systems support that... Does = FreeBSD-8? Is that sufficient, or will an SSD degrade quickly anyway? >=20 > Does anyone use an SSD under FreeBSD? Which brand/model? Are you happy = with it? I setup a pfsense system at work with an Intel SSD. It was overkill, = but we wanted high uptime. It was well worth the money. Not all SSDs = are created equal. Early this year, I built a server with an Imation = 32GB SSD as a boot drive and it failed on me within 3 months. I could = read the data off it, but it was no longer writable. Don't get cheap if = you go with SSD. It burned me. =20 Lucas Holt Luke@FoolishGames.com ________________________________________________________ MidnightBSD.org (Free OS) JustJournal.com (Free blogging)