SSD: How to Optimize Your Solid State Drive for Linux

Re:SSD: How to Optimize Your Solid State Drive for Linux by transfire on Sunday May 31, 2015 @08:46AM (#9633988)

I like the idea of using my SSD as a HDD cache. What do others think?

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Re:SSD: How to Optimize Your Solid State Drive for Linux by baruch on Sunday May 31, 2015 @10:09AM (#9634215)

It can work out nicely if most of what you do is the size of the SSD and the total capacity is higher than the SSD capacity (i.e. lots of rarely used stuff).

In fact, I worked on an enterprise storage that did just that and it significantly improved performance for many workloads. There are open-source solutions for that in Linux that integrate into LVM and do that pretty much without any other interaction by the user. bcache comes to mind but there were a few others as well.

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Re:SSD: How to Optimize Your Solid State Drive for Linux by jcastro on Sunday May 31, 2015 @11:04AM (#9634363)

I do this with bcache. 250GB SSD, ~50 GB for / and swap and then 200GB for ssd caching, which is paired with a 1TB drive for a total of 1TB /home.

With ~250GB SSDs going for like 100 bucks it's like a no-brainer to add one to a desktop.

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