Re: [LAU] OT: SSD disk prices have dropped?

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@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 -- pacman -Q linux{,-rt{,-securityink,-pussytoes,-cornflower}}|cut -d\ -f2 4.19.arch1-1 4.19.1_rt3-0 4.19_rt1-0 4.18.16_rt9-1 4.18.16_rt8-1