[clug] lRe: SSD drives and lots of writes

[rodneyp at pcug.org.au]

On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 04:46:13 linux-request at lists.samba.org wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:46:04 +1000
> From: Kim Holburn <kim.holburn at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [clug] SSD drives and lots of writes
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> On 2012/Sep/24, at 7:45 PM, Arjen Lentz wrote:
> > Hi Alex
> >
> > 
> >
> >>> I have had SSDs run out of writes on me.
> >>> Admittedly that was one of the things I was intending to measure,
> >>> but I was using it in a desktop not a server environment.
> >
> > 
> >
> >> What were you doing? Where these early model disks (eg pre-2000) or
> >> something more recent?
> >
> > 
> >
> > 2009 or thereabouts, IIRC.
> > Linux desktop - doing browser stuff, some file editing, bzr repo stuff,
> > compiling. It was of course an earlier generation SSD, but not that
> > ancient.
> >
> > 
> >
> > On the other hand, I put OCZs in a laptop, and it's still going fine a few
> > years later. The laptop SSD I prepped and also tuned the filesystem and
> > OS to behave more properly for the SSD. And another brand, later model,
> > etc.>
> > 
> >
> > I'd say it's definitely beneficial to do the proper preparation and tuning
> > - at least it won't hurt and just takes a bit of time. less hassle in the
> > long run, probably.
> So, what do you mean by the proper preparation and tuning?
> 
> Kim
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One  of  the features of BTRFS is  that  it is  "SSD aware".  

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page

I've installed btrfs on SSD only recently

-- 
Rod