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@itsfoss this your PC @vbabka ?

@ljs @itsfoss no, mine doesn't have Intel

@vbabka @itsfoss mine is very stable

@ljs @itsfoss so you've finally gave in and underclocked it?

@itsfoss
I still prefer good old magnetic HDDs. IMHO there are more disadvantages of SSD compared to HDD. Anyone the same experience?

@voyager
I only had one failure on HDD and that's several decades ago, the disk didn't boot anymore, probably a damaged boot sector.
SSD is not suitable for rolling distros because of very limited write access durability, I would expect some failures soon, especially if it's an old SSD.
@itsfoss

@amarok @voyager @itsfoss

I was unsure as well, but I had Gentoo on SDD in my work NB for 5 years and no issues. Only special setup I have are /tmp and /var/tmp/portage folders in ramdisk.

I also switched from HDD to SDD on my home NB and it is a big difference. NB is quiet and start of system and applications is much quicker.

But anyway I'm duplicating important files to NAS and offline storage.

@vbabka @itsfoss nah I'm just clocking it which is enough to be a concern lol

@amarok @voyager @itsfoss@mastodon.social I think the problem of SSD limited write numbers is greatly exaggerated. I haven't come across a single SSD that died because of too many writes and I even have an SSD that has been in use since 2009.
And the performance difference is just huge.

@sesivany @amarok @voyager Manufacturers quote so high Terrabytes-written numbers that it should not really be problem for rolling distro. SD cards were easy to kill, but I don't believe modern SSDs have similar problem.

@mkyral @amarok @voyager @itsfoss I even have swap on SSD. They should handle it just fine, unless you are overwriting every single byte every hour or something like that.

@pavel @amarok @itsfoss @voyager

I have Swap too, but with 32 and 64GB RAM I almost never use it.

@ljs @itsfoss @vbabka do you clock your PDP-11 very fast?

@mkyral
Well it all depends on the size of SSD (and on the size of swap partition if used), of course. You can use a rolling distro if there's plenty of space left because of the way Linux filesystem spreads data to avoid fragmentation. But the much higher price factor of high-capacity SSDs is one of the main disadvantages, therefore I still prefer HDD, the speed difference is not relevant to me.
@pavel @itsfoss @voyager