Have you seen a remarkable improvement in performance given that you moved from a reasonably fast non-SSD ?
Did you do any other improvements other than to swap out the HDD ?
Maybe I am asking an impossible question, but I was thinking of doing 2 different things having to do with an SSD.
For the desktop, add an additional 250GB SSD. This drive would hold the openSUSE operating system and the data would be housed on the existing 1TB HDD
For the Laptop, replace the existing 250GB with something better.
There is really no reason for me to be doing this other than trying to speed things up. Response time is pretty good now, I just like to mess around. lol!
Hi
For booting with systemd the difference for me between a SATAII and SATAIII SSD is only about a second or so, but general use with the SSD is much faster with opening applications, building locally with osc. How much RAM in the systems, I found running 8GB made a difference as well? Can the systems you have run SATAIII (as in 6Gbps);
dmesg | grep SATA
For me the SATAII rotating drives are about 75% slower on my notebooks. I’m planning to get a SATAIII WD black to see how much it improves by though, rather than another SSD.
System startup with a SSD can be remarkably faster. Some database tasks (like compiling your own kernel) also operate way faster. Under normal operation, like running Firefox, no noticeable difference may be seen. SSD are expensive and switching over to SSD’s can be a pain, but its my choice to use a SSD for my boot drive on all PC’s if I can.
On 10/31/2013 12:26 PM, hextejas wrote:
>
> Have you seen a remarkable improvement in performance given that you
> moved from a reasonably fast non-SSD ?
Yes.
> Did you do any other improvements other than to swap out the HDD ?
>
> Maybe I am asking an impossible question, but I was thinking of doing 2
> different things having to do with an SSD.
>
> 1) For the desktop, add an additional 250GB SSD. This drive would hold
> the openSUSE operating system and the data would be housed on the
> existing 1TB HDD
Pretty common, really.
> 2) For the Laptop, replace the existing 250GB with something better.
If by better you mean SSD, good choice.
> There is really no reason for me to be doing this other than trying to
> speed things up. Response time is pretty good now, I just like to mess
> around. lol!
My SSD alone would probably make my laptop smoke just about any desktop I
felt I could afford (without an SSD) in all of the metrics that are
different because of an SSD. Boot time dropped dramatically with the SSD,
as did login and initial application loading times. Once running the SSD
doesn’t help as much because Linux is smart and will cache files
regardless of the type of media involved, but that first time (and anytime
the files are not cached because RAM is used doing other things) you’ll
really enjoy the SSD’s speed.
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To reduce ware cache and any very active data like log files should go to spinning rust drives, since SSD have definite write limits which will reduce usable time.
I replaced my root partition with an ssd and setup raid0 for my home, and what a difference! I’m seriously considering replacing my laptop’s hard drive with an ssd for the performance gains and decrease in power consumption.
The SSD I have been seeing all seem to be 2.5" drives. Is there an adaptor for use in a HDD cage, or do I even need one ?
All the drives that are in there now are 3.5"
On Fri 01 Nov 2013 06:56:02 PM CDT, hextejas wrote:
The SSD I have been seeing all seem to be 2.5" drives. Is there an
adaptor for use in a HDD cage, or do I even need one ?
All the drives that are in there now are 3.5"
Hi
My recent purchase of an OCZ Vertex4 128GB drive came with the
2.5"->3.5" adapter. But they are available. Depends on where your
purchasing your device from and the manufacturer. Check their website
for the specs on the drive and whats included.
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For me an SSD is an absolute must as the boot drive for all systems I have, whether desktop or laptop. Boot time is much less but I rarely reboot. What’s faster is launching applications, listing files, SVN commits, copying files, sleep & resume, pretty much everything that involves the disk. It makes a huge difference to systems and is much more important that another stick of RAM or an overclock on the CPU. Choosing between an older system with an SSD and a newer one with a much better CPU but a mechanical drive, I would go for the older with SSD every time. SSDs are also quieter, and the ones from the best manufacturers are more reliable than mechanical drives.
SSDs will also have lower idle power than a mechanical drive, an old 3.5" drive can be 5 to 10 Watts idle, a newer 2.5" drive 1 to 1.5 Watts idle and an SSD is < 0.5 Watts idle. So on a laptop idling at 10 Watts with the screen off (e.g. my ThinkPad X200s), you may also see a 10% battery life improvement.
They are expensive, but getting less so. My most recent purchase was a 128 GB used Crucial m4 for £52 in the UK. While it was used the SMART info said only 1% of its expected lifetime had been used to date.
The ADATA from my sig is a SATAIII device, laptop has SATAIII (though specs said it had SATAII when I bought it). Previous laptop had SATAII, same SSD. Speeddifference in booting, starting apps etc. is hardly worth mentioning. But, writing large files is faster, much faster. As is writing lots of small files.