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[Roberto Gardenier <robertogardenier@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you for your response Jason!

I think i wont change any setups for now. Next step is to take a look at
the power consumption of my device and see if i can tweak that. After that,
the heat of the device. Its too hot if u ask me. Thanks once again!

kind regards,
Roberto Gardenier

2012/8/22 Jason Pettitt <jaypettitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> My non-expert take after reading a few things off the ever reliable
> Internet is that there's no need.
>
> SSDs degenerate over time, picking up (permanent) bad sectors. But it's
> handled gracefully by the SSD's firmware. Changes to fstab are designed to
> lighten the 'wear' on the SSD. But in the real world even if you crunch
> data through a SSD drive as hard as you can 24 hours a day it'll still
> likely last longer than the life time of the rest of your hardware before
> the firmware can't cope and you start noticing reliability issues from bad
> sectors.
>
> There might be some RAID issues that someone more knowledgeable than me
> could comment on - but even then the worst that could likely happen is that
> you re-format and re-install once in a blue moon.
>
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Roberto Gardenier <
> robertogardenier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just read a article explaning that u need to tweak a few settings in
>> Ubuntu when using SSD's.
>> I kinda missed the point of this so i would like to ask you guys if this
>> is really a must, and if so, why ?
>>
>> Changes described in the article:
>>
>> ===============================================
>> File: /etc/fstab
>> === Changed in file
>> relatime => noatime.
>> === Added to the file
>> tmpfs      /var/log        tmpfs        defaults           0    0
>> ===============================================
>> File: /etc/sysctl.conf
>> === Added to the file
>> vm.swappiness=0
>> vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50
>> ===============================================
>> File: /etc/rc.local
>> === Added to the file
>> for dir in apparmor apt cups dist-upgrade fsck gdm installer samba
>> unattended-upgrades ;
>> do
>>            if [ ! -e /var/log/$dir ] ; then
>>                    mkdir /var/log/$dir
>>            fi
>> done
>> ===============================================
>>
>> URL: https://sites.google.com/site/computertip/ssd
>> The site is in dutch....
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>> Kind regard,
>> Roberto Gardenier
>>
>>
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