[Cialug] Anyone using an SSD?

[Tim Champion]

I've had a Intel 32gb X25-E on a LAMP server for several months. It improved
performance by about double (anecdotally). Went from a mirror RAID of 2
7200rpm SATA drives to a single SSD. It was an amazing difference.

Tim Champion
timchampion at gmail.com


On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Matt Breitbach
<matthewb at flash.shanje.com>wrote:

> Trim is important for _most_ SSD drives.  The Intel X25M's aren't bad
> without it, and the new OCZ drive looks promising if Anandtech's review is
> to be believed - http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3702
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
> Behalf
> Of Eric Junker
> Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 6:11 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Anyone using an SSD?
>
> On 1/10/2010 1:31 PM, Rob Miller wrote:
> > I've been curious about SS-drives for several years.  I just finished
> > reading the Anandtech article and I want to buy one.  Anyone on the list
> > have any advice?  Thanks.
>
> I'd love to have an SSD drive but last time I checked Linux doesn't
> support the TRIM command which is important to prevent performance
> degradation over time. Anybody know when Linux will support TRIM?
>
> Eric
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