Woww... SSD's are the dogs danglies!!

[clivejo]

I just installed a new SSD on my laptop and wow I'm impressed!! Boots from cold in 3 seconds!

EDIT : The above is slang for "Something really cool. Something you want real bad.
Something or a person that is the best thing ever."

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=the%20dogs%20danglies

[yav0r]

oh no, not you too I have seen so many SSDs go dead for the past year that am NEVER getting an SSD honestly maybe in 2 years when they become more stable and reliable.

[clivejo]

Way to go bursting my bubble!!

Was the failure due to the too many writes failure? I been thinking a lot about this and I've moved my home directories to a second regular HDD, also moved tmp and log files off the SSD to try and keep writes to it to a minimum.

Are there any other tips I should consider to help keep it running?

[yav0r]

too many write failures yes. I just think those disks are not up to the challenge when it comes to server usage. For personal usage they should live up to the hype.

[clivejo]

Yeah but in certain cases they would be useful. For example a read only database or a cache of static objects. I reckoned my internet cache would kill it very fast, that's why I moved my home to secondary HDD. Still way faster though!

[Tom Alexander]

SSD... I am getting one soon.

However it will be 64GB no more - for the OS only.

All important stuff will stay on the HDD

[clivejo]

I agree with keeping the SSD small and only for the OS. I moved all my log files and any file that changed regularity to a HDD. As a result I only use 7.7Gb of a 500Gb SSD Over kill to be honest.

I'm thinking of putting my music on the SSD as it rarely changes, just gets added to!

[Tom Alexander]

@clivejo, actually I am on something new now

Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIaz5WktAGg

Way better... and cheaper (maybe)!

[yav0r]

yay that looks too cool for school I am using the same CPU hydro cooling btw its top notch! The RAM Disk is a great idea actually.


Anyone knows any drawbacks ?

[clivejo]

I use a ramdisk on a raspberrypi to prevent SD-card writes, works pretty well. But my RAM is too valuable to spare any on my main PC.

I dont know why but having the SSD and HDD on together seems to speed up the HDD(maybe single reads/writes are easier for it, without the OS being there)) I'm very happy with the performance so far and seem to be keeping writes to SSD very low(just OS updates). I never suspend or hibernate my PC any more, as I can boot a clean session in a few seconds.

[Nova-Host]

Clivejo, you're lucky. I wish I ahd the money to get an SSD. I need one quite badly, but it needs to be 160GB or larger. Of course as I'm unemployed I don't have the money for one, and I don't think the OS HDD I intend replace it with is going to last until Christmas, so in any event I'm kind of screwed if my HDD fails. I do plan to, should I finally come up[ with the money, or should my OS HDD somehow survive until Christmas (all its doing now is providing me with 7 minute bootup times, and I mean with only essential things, the stuff you van't leave out, starting up). I really don't want to take an image of the drive and simply re-install windows because that's only a temporary fix. I'd rather an SSD that will boot me up in less tan 2 minutes. Of course, they're very expensive to me, but I seem to have little choice in the matter, lol.

[clivejo]

Wow 7 minute boot times I would go mad !! But to be honest you couldnt pay me to use Windows on a daily bases!! 10-15mins on Windows 7 and that stupid metro interface and I'm ready to throw it out the window!

It was purchased as I was sure my main HDD was dying a horrible death. It racked up 967 bad sectors in a month and I was sure it was about to die! However, since I reformatted and only use it for my home directory and capturing raw video it is behaving itself and no new bad sectors have been recorded. I am keeping a tight eye on it though and make sure I have everything on it backed up!

[vlasi47gr]

Wow 7 minute boot times I would go mad !! But to be honest you couldnt pay me to use Windows on a daily bases!! 10-15mins on Windows 7 and that stupid metro interface and I'm ready to throw it out the window!

Taking Windows and throwing it out the window? No pun intended, right? You do mean Windows 8 don't you with the metro interface. I like Windows 7 (hated Vista) and haven't thought about upgrading (?) to Windows 8 yet. Maybe 8.1 will tempt me but I don't know.......

[clivejo]

Sorry, yes I meant Windows 8. I HATE the metro interface!

[vlasi47gr]

As an update, I did upgrade to Windows 8 and found it to boot up quickly and quite a good OS. However the Metro interface is something I could not get used to and downloaded a shell that gives me an interface similar to Windows 7. I like it. However due to some limitation with the PC I have I was unable to upgrade to Win 8.1 so I cannot comment on that. I may have to break down and buy a new desktop. I just hate to spend the money right now as I have had quite a few expenses lately....but if anybody wants to donate to the cause I'd be willing to accept.

[doneritehosting]

Had win 8 on my Toshiba laptop and like you did not like the metro interface. I went to linux zorin os7. its setup like win7 and based off ubuntu. The only thing i miss from win8 is being able to stream media over the network to the xbox 360 on the bigscreen in the livingroom. Have a looksee may save u from an upgrade