On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
On Sat, 15 Dec 2012, Aryan Ameri <info@ameri.me> wrote:
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Daniel Dalton <d.dalton@iinet.net.au> wrote:
2. What tweaks do people use to prolong ssd life and also improve performance?
Leave 20% of the disk as unpartitioned, spare area, it will greatly help performance and consistency of I/O.
The article you cited stated that the use of TRIM combined with spare space in the filesystem should give all the benefits of having unpartitioned space.
Yes that is true, if the OS supports TRIM, just leaving about 20% unused should provide the same results. However I have found TRIM support on linux to be a bit spotty, depending on the distribution, kernel, filesystem, etc.
The graph part made no sense to a skim read so I'm not sure what they are on about with that.
Really?! I thought the graphs are very clear.
I guess that the real issue is to just not fill your storage and make sure TRIM is working.
This is certainly true. Making sure TRIM is working is the single best thing you can do with a SSD. Also make sure your filesystem is not doing some sort of re-ordering/defragmenting is vital. As for life expectancy, the Sammy 830 is a very good SSD with very intelligent firmware. It should easily last you a good 5 years even if you are writing 100GB every single day to it. Unless you are doing video production or something of that nature on the machine, I would say don't worry about it. Cheers -- Aryan