More on SSDs
We are getting more off topic here, but @jwilliams you seem to be very anti SSD. Once I used my first one I could never go back. I have a Mini-ITX machine with an Intel i3-2120 and an OCZ 256GB SSD running Arch with Gnome 3.10 and a 3.12 kernel. The longest part of the boot process is me typing in my password and shutdown takes about 5 seconds. Big programs like LibreOffice Writer open almost instantly. And the box rarely uses more than 26w and it is very quiet (the only moving part is the CPU fan). I have never had any issue with the SSDs. My first system was an SSD boot drive (/), with swap and /home on a second HDD - fast enough for most people, but since then I just have an SSD and lay off data storage to my NAS.
Failures do occur (so far not to me), but then I have had a few HDDs fail as well. I do back up important data to a NAS, but then I did that in the olden days of HDDs as well. A friend of mine recently had an early OCZ SSD die after just less than three years, and he did not even consider going back to an HDD. He got a new drive and restored his disk clone and went on his merry way.
Just my opinion as a very happy SSD user.
We are getting more off topic here, but @jwilliams you seem to be very anti SSD. Once I used my first one I could never go back. I have a Mini-ITX machine with an Intel i3-2120 and an OCZ 256GB SSD running Arch with Gnome 3.10 and a 3.12 kernel. The longest part of the boot process is me typing in my password and shutdown takes about 5 seconds. Big programs like LibreOffice Writer open almost instantly. And the box rarely uses more than 26w and it is very quiet (the only moving part is the CPU fan). I have never had any issue with the SSDs. My first system was an SSD boot drive (/), with swap and /home on a second HDD - fast enough for most people, but since then I just have an SSD and lay off data storage to my NAS.
Failures do occur (so far not to me), but then I have had a few HDDs fail as well. I do back up important data to a NAS, but then I did that in the olden days of HDDs as well. A friend of mine recently had an early OCZ SSD die after just less than three years, and he did not even consider going back to an HDD. He got a new drive and restored his disk clone and went on his merry way.
Just my opinion as a very happy SSD user.
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