Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:53:59 +0200 From: Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Considering purchase off SSD! Message-ID: <5066FD77.9080806@eskk.nu> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1209290737200.25337@wonkity.com> References: <5066E509.9090906@eskk.nu> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1209290737200.25337@wonkity.com>
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Warren Block skrev 2012-09-29 15:48: > On Sat, 29 Sep 2012, Leslie Jensen wrote: > >> I'm considering to purchase a SSD. >> >> The one I have in mind for the moment is this one. >> >> Samsung 830 Series MZ-7PC512D 512GB >> >> I'm not going for a top of the line disk but I would like to ask if >> anyone has experience with SSD's and FreeBSD (9.1 is my plan). > > SSDs work. Be sure to align partitions to 4K, and enable TRIM support > on the filesystems. Use AHCI if available. > >> Just to complicate things a little, I'll make a dual boot install with >> W7. I have this set up today on an ordinary SATA disk. > > In that case, the same as above, but if Windows was installed without > AHCI enabled in the BIOS, it may not work if AHCI is enabled for FreeBSD. > > Two of those Samsungs in 256G actually cost less than one 512G, and > would make partitioning and multibooting simpler. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Thanks Warren! I have read about the alignment, TRIM and AHCI. I just needed a confirmation that it will work. My machine is a laptop so I only have room for one disk ;-) /Leslie
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