[ltp] Re: solid state drive?

[Dan Maranville]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 03:50, Laurent <pumpkin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> What makes you say not to use ext3?
>> AFAICT, it should not make much difference: at most double the number of
>> writes, i.e. halve the expected life of your drive.
>
> The journal causes a lot of small writes. Small writes have a bigger write
> amplification, so it's a lot more data for the SSD. That makes it slow. I
> don't worry about the number of writes, but i do want a fast system.
>
> cu
>

I found some interesting stuff here,
http://www.storagesearch.com/ssdmyths-endurance.html and here
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=51957 when I was looking at
going this route.


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Dan Maranville

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