[LAU] OT: SSD disk prices have dropped?

[Ralf Mardorf]

Hi,

as internal drives I'm using SSDs only, for backups I'm using external
HDDs.

I'm using 3 Toshiba OCZ SSDs, probably those are the cheapest and
slowest, but "slowest" still means super fast. Proprietary software for
Toshiba OCZ is available, e.g. by the Arch user repository.

The software I'm using to update firmware and to get better
information, than provided by smatrctl:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ocz-ssd-utility/

Software that is available, but that isn't used by me:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/oczclout/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ocztoolbox/

                                                       Formatted Capacity  Power-On Hours Count  Host Writes  Lifetime remaining
OCZ TR200 240GB 25.07.2018 42,00840 € x 1,19 = 49,99 € 223,57 GiB           2256                  83049       92%       
OCZ TL100 240GB 27.07.2017 72,68908 € x 1,19 = 86,50 € 223,57 GiB           8909                  73515       86%
OCZ TL100 240GB 03.02.2017 65,50420 € x 1,19 = 77,95 € 223,57 GiB          11789                 278459       65%

I'm using periodic TRIM once a week.

[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ systemctl status fstrim.timer | tail -1
Nov 11 19:22:04 archlinux systemd[1]: Started Discard unused blocks once a week.

There are no issues when using ext4 and recent Linux installs, such as
e.g. Arch Linux or Ubuntu 16.04. Running Windows 7 in a virtual machine
using qcow on ext4 works fine, too.

I experienced hiccups with unsupported antique Linux installs.

All you need to do is replacing a HDD by a SSD, power and SATA plugs are the
same. Assumed your SSD does support TRIM, you should enable periodic TRIM.

$ sudo hdparm -I /dev/sdc | grep -i trim\ support
	   *	Data Set Management TRIM supported (limit 8 blocks)

Regards,
Ralf

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