I am in the market for an SSD. In particular, I am looking at the "OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD2-2VTXE60G 2.5" 60GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)" from newegg here http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227550
I am using Kubuntu 10.4. I wish to dedicate an SSD to the boot, root and swap on my system. My root in 5 years is at about 7GB total (not counting /tmp). I wish to dedicate 16GB of the SSD to swap. So I plan on immediately using 23GB as soon as I get it.
Here is my question. I hibernate up to 2 times a day and probably write up to 6GB a day doing this alone. The details on the disk at newegg state this "MTBF: 2,000,000 hours" and if I am correct, that's 228 years until failure. But consensus to wear, tear and failure seem quicker.
Q. How does it really work if on average I am writing say 10GB a day to the disk? My main concerns go into speedier boot, binary access and hibernate/resume. Am I gonna dog this disk?
One more question. When I was reading some articles on this site, I believe I saw the single most important factor was random writing to the disk. If this is correct and newegg details say this about the disk "4k Random Write (Aligned): 50,000 IOPS" is that good in terms of performance amongst SSDs?
Q. I just want to know if I am making a pretty good decision on this disk. I believe the price per GB is good here for me *but* is the performance what I think it is in comparison to other disk at newegg?
In other words, if you know of a better disk, I'd like to hear about it as I will most likely order this disk before the day is up. I assume, I can plug it right in like any other SATA HDD, boot, format to (Ext 4) and go (I hope).
Thank you for your time. I appreciate it!
I am using Kubuntu 10.4. I wish to dedicate an SSD to the boot, root and swap on my system. My root in 5 years is at about 7GB total (not counting /tmp). I wish to dedicate 16GB of the SSD to swap. So I plan on immediately using 23GB as soon as I get it.
Here is my question. I hibernate up to 2 times a day and probably write up to 6GB a day doing this alone. The details on the disk at newegg state this "MTBF: 2,000,000 hours" and if I am correct, that's 228 years until failure. But consensus to wear, tear and failure seem quicker.
Q. How does it really work if on average I am writing say 10GB a day to the disk? My main concerns go into speedier boot, binary access and hibernate/resume. Am I gonna dog this disk?
One more question. When I was reading some articles on this site, I believe I saw the single most important factor was random writing to the disk. If this is correct and newegg details say this about the disk "4k Random Write (Aligned): 50,000 IOPS" is that good in terms of performance amongst SSDs?
Q. I just want to know if I am making a pretty good decision on this disk. I believe the price per GB is good here for me *but* is the performance what I think it is in comparison to other disk at newegg?
In other words, if you know of a better disk, I'd like to hear about it as I will most likely order this disk before the day is up. I assume, I can plug it right in like any other SATA HDD, boot, format to (Ext 4) and go (I hope).
Thank you for your time. I appreciate it!