On 23 July 2014 11:20, Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> wrote:
Toby Corkindale <toby@dryft.net> wrote:
And finally -- the price isn't even that good! Why pay $140 for an unproven Kogan drive, when you can get a *proven* decent drive like the Crucial MX100 256GB for $110? http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX100-adapter-Internal-CT256MX100SSD1/dp/B00KF...
That's an excellent price for a 256GB SSD. We can expect prices and capacity to improve further in coming years.
Does Linux still require edits to /etc/fstab to support Trim and other SSD optimizations, or is it all done by default now?
I think most tools are smart enough to do things right for SSDs (mainly, block-aligning) now, but TRIM still tends to need you to fiddle with stuff to enable. I think this is because on older SSDs, TRIM (aka discard) was a performance problem, so you really only wanted to run it once at 4am rather than every time you touched a block on your device. But newer SSDs fixed that issue, but because only some support it, the choice is left up to the user. (With the default seeming to be "don't do it at all" unfortunately) T