Re: My SSD is dead, what next?
Originally Posted by
psusi
You need swap in order to hibernate, which is kind of handy for saving power without completely shutting down. Without the journal, you will have to endure a full fsck if you crash, and that is a bit more likely to have problems. Disabling atime is a good idea.
I got a 64gb ssd last march. In that time, I have migrated entire partitions on and off of it with LVM a few times, and still the SMART stats report I have only used 2% of the write life of the drive.
Cool where did you check the write life? I got a new SSD with my system I built a little over a month ago.. I didn't do anything I just did a normal install and put swap space even though I never use it. I don't think most people have any idea what they are talking about, they just read stuff on the internet and decided it was true. So I decided not to waste my time. If it lasts me two years that will be more than enough for me though.. I'll just buy a new one then.
Intel Core i7 970 6/12 (Cores/Threads) 3.2GHz 12MB Cache
6GB DDR3 1866MHz RAM | ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB GDDR5
60GB SSD (/) | 1TB 64MB Cache HDD (/home)
Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot 11.10 x64
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