HDD or SSD

[eikelein]

Will SSD work okay on older machines....?.

Jocklad,
I have installed Linux Lite on several older machines with varying SATA controllers, meaning SATA2 and SATA3; no problems at all.
I have used only quality SSDs from Samsung and/or Crucial; no problems at all.

If the original system drive was full with whatever I moved data to a classic HDD and installed the system on a low priced 100 or 120GB SSD. Tody I saw on Newegg a 120GB Samsung 850 for $69.

This makes even 8 to 10 years old boxes run like brand new champs! Okay, I see that these old boxes have 2 or 4GB of RAM, I admit.

Go for it!

[TMG1961]

I recently replaced the hd in my 5,5 year old laptop with a 120GB Samsung 850 SSD and can only say that it made the laptop run like it was brand new.
Startup takes only just over 20 seconds, programs start straigt away and not after waiting for 5-10 seconds. I only have one regret..and that is that i didnt replace the hd with a ssd earlier.

[nomko]

You might also consider reading this:
https://sites.google.com/site/easytipsfo...tes-drives

[Jocklad]

Very useful.

Thanks nomko.

[Jocklad]

Today I got a Samsung 120g SSD and installed LL 2.6.

Boot time very fast.

Very impressed so far.

Jocklad 

[Wirezfree]

Yes, They are quick, I have a variety of Samsung SSD's, , 840 EVO & PRO and 850 EVO & PRO
NOTE:
There are are some issues reported with various SSD's under Linux, I posted that somewhere.??
But I have yet to experience any issues myself...

Some comments,
there was an issue when installing Windows on SSD's they did not install at the correct sector, and gave performance issues.
On Linux after many, many, many installs, I never had an issue, you can check correct install with the following, it should result in "0"

Code:

$ sudo su
[sudo] password for [user]:
blockdev --getalignoff /dev/sda1
0
blockdev --getalignoff /dev/sda2
0

To do a quick speed check..., this is my 840Pro, testing my sda drive

Code:

dave@asus-mini-1:~$ sudo hdparm -t --direct /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Timing O_DIRECT disk reads: 1514 MB in  3.00 seconds = 504.54 MB/sec

for comparison, this is my WD Black 2.5" spinner, supposedly the fastest consumer 2.5"

Code:

dave@asus-mini-1:~$ sudo hdparm -t --direct /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb:
Timing O_DIRECT disk reads: 324 MB in  3.01 seconds = 107.52 MB/sec

[Jocklad]

Have run the new SSD now on LL 2.6 for about 5-6 hours.

Running very fast ........No problems at all.

Will mark thread as solved.

Thank you to all who helped me with this.

Jocklad 

[Jocklad]

Out of curiosity I timed the boot.

From power on to desktop on LL 2.8........12 seconds  8)

[Wirezfree]

If you want to get a more precise timing.?
Go into synaptic and search for bootchart and select for install, it wall also install pybootchartgui.
Reboot..
Then go into filemanager to:/var/log/bootchart/
You will find a .png graphic with very detailed loading sequence like below, my desktop loads in < 8secs, the chart indicates the OS loaded in 7.05 secs.
There is supposed to be a command line to disable it, otherwise it loads on every-boot, I just un-installed it via synaptic

[Jocklad]

Thanks Wirezfree.

Will have a look at that.