On 2008-07-22, 7 <website_has_email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> If your SSD sucks, blame Vista, says SSD vendor
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>> | It's Windows Vista's fault that solid-state storage isn't performing as
>> | well as its proponents predicted. So said SanDisk CEO Eli Harari, but at
>> | least he didn't go as far as saying it's Microsoft's problem to fix.
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>> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/07/22/sandisk_ssd_vista_beef/
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> Haven't bought my SSD at the moment - they are like gold dust, but
> I didn't think SSD could be run under the WINDUMMY OSen?!
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> It will have killed the drive!!
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> Under Linux, need to use the EXT2 filesystem as far as I remember
> from research to avoid the same problems.
Yep... Journalling creates too many disk writes.
You should also mount the disk "noatime" to avoid unnecessary writes
when only reading the disk.
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Regards,
Gregory.
Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power
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