From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 29 13:54:04 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 448B7106567A for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2012 13:54:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leslie@eskk.nu) Received: from mx1.bjare.net (mx1.bjare.net [212.31.160.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B95BF8FC1F for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2012 13:54:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D17F5E15F; Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:54:02 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mx1.bjare.net X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.583 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.583 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.585, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_PBL=0.905, RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.1, SPF_SOFTFAIL=0.596] Received: from mx1.bjare.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx1.bjare.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id aysUD9J3GaFs; Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:54:00 +0200 (CEST) X-BN-MX1: ja X-BN-MailInfo: BjareNet Received: from [172.17.0.139] (c-195-216-043-059.ekt.thalamus.net [195.216.43.59]) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 001415E160; Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:53:59 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <5066FD77.9080806@eskk.nu> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:53:59 +0200 From: Leslie Jensen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warren Block References: <5066E509.9090906@eskk.nu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Considering purchase off SSD! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 13:54:04 -0000 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