From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Sep 14 11:03:55 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29937AC4147 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2016 11:03:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-wm0-x22c.google.com (mail-wm0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::22c]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B44DA1961 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2016 11:03:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: by mail-wm0-x22c.google.com with SMTP id c131so23043337wmh.0 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2016 04:03:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=pOpriO1WT/w7LXqFBPo/NyWMPgcbxF33ATqGNgqvUas=; b=V44xOgZMI9pfHwwckPrWizPEFF3yxtFZKRwOkXtzBWV3KZJB3/+8R76BvzVhXPqwE+ /NZ27hr5Gy9ZJluSu75mUQuN5/F0YwNQoru2LCCUFhwGdbG4fdRozOEk0F616X3XzX6k uXhAuz6m1navRlw8tcz+Mt4rp2S1bBapVX0ygCQq1l70lnvmaNi8bd5Vt9RlGmhti5ZD Yz1EDrXtPgnCtszUqNyL0zp0Es8eWrFqQqvLt1s7Gr/UoVP/ZyH78i7pqMZdIg3X3S95 NJJjVR+VHDQ2No6jamUJu+htvbT3Iye8YKyJpN0kuAZDkSp39xSWNLnnW4W0HyRuYv0q aEpw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=pOpriO1WT/w7LXqFBPo/NyWMPgcbxF33ATqGNgqvUas=; b=f9Cqm7YHAk3O7wU9ZMnh1ScNZCHduvyc4/76FklStbicDqMKdGJCh36tZKVRsB/7yv Dm40xMTpCq9f4ob4/6s2Ov4UzYcZ0gX+5HX38mDcaOM/oocZOPtzk0aPwkkrb2B/zLe6 K1h7bUShFv7T7JZS7PUfRRr4jiEw4hVxfaYOqzVAG9vM/bg5DoGZZx9pGLFSrs+matxn r1CPFuRx1khXIoc7OSt3p39/FaryJwNWwQSqAUPXZX7mFLLwRLqqs2NN2NStEA7Ie2iv NMZ0JtVN1y1ygfEb3nsEUFV3A915Oy3DdMp/LzrK6FsVQFwXaINNzRXIjDL+x9I9x7PK AuTA== X-Gm-Message-State: AE9vXwNTuX79LkW6gjYsHfX1lgMlslVydtD3ZPmHsGvNX8E/fHXZlIit1h1fXYETkJOwoQ== X-Received: by 10.194.145.229 with SMTP id sx5mr1961627wjb.13.1473851032307; Wed, 14 Sep 2016 04:03:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com ([81.17.24.158]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id i127sm3638743wmf.4.2016.09.14.04.03.51 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Wed, 14 Sep 2016 04:03:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 12:03:49 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best kind of hard drive for heavy use? Message-ID: <20160914120349.76a015cd@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <42.56.05022.D3A48D75@dnvrco-oedge02> References: <42.56.05022.D3A48D75@dnvrco-oedge02> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.0 (GTK+ 2.24.29; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 11:03:55 -0000 On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 18:48:22 +0000 Thomas Mueller wrote: > I had a hard-drive crash last night, GPT corrupted, don't know > whether it's a software fault (NetBSD-current 7.99.15 i386) or > hardware. > > Main question is what kind of hard drive is used for heavy compiling > in FreeBSD, base system and ports, what might be used to create > packages and base-system downloadable images. Do you really need to use a disk? I do almost everything like that on tmpfs.