[kwlug-disc] OT: SSD disks?

[CrankyOldBugger]

This bcache does indeed look interesting..  I will investigate further!


On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 at 22:44 Hubert Chathi <hubert at uhoreg.ca> wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:33:21 +0000, CrankyOldBugger <
> crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> said:
>
> [...]
>
> > The drive that I replaced, a Samsung 256TB SSD, is still salvageable,
>                                        ^^^^^
> I hope there is a typo there ...
>
> > My Lenovo laptop came with a 1 TB HDD and a 16gig mSATA.  It's almost
> > three years old now.  I use the mSATA as a swap partition (I have 8
> > gig RAM).  I think the jury is still out on whether or not you should
> > use mSATA as a swap drive, but I had to use it for something.  I would
> > love to replace the HDD in the laptop with a SSD, for all the reasons
> > Chris mentioned.  In fact, once I scrape together a few bucks I just
> > might pop out the 1TB HDD for a 512 TB SSD, but I'm not sure it will
> > be the same Adata.
>
> Have you looked into bcache or dm-cache?  I haven't tried either of them
> myself, but they look interesting.
>
> Hubert
>
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