eeePC 900 with SSD && reducing writes

Jeremy Chadwick koitsu at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jun 24 13:24:12 UTC 2008


On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 03:11:50PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have installed FreeBSD 7.0R on that eeePC 900 and because of the
> limited life time of the SSD (see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_levelling )
> I disabled some logging stuff which I don't need on that tiny laptop,
> ...
> any other ideas how to reduces unnecessary often-writes?

Why bother?  http://www.storagesearch.com/ssdmyths-endurance.html

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