SSD Optimization

[LongeFlucht]

I am building a new MiniITX system and would like some help on partitioning/mounting points for SSD optimization.

The majority of / will be on the SSD, but files that are written to often shouldn't be there as the high write operations will diminish the lifetime of the SSD.

I will also have a 450G SATAIII drive where I believe that directories like /tmp and /home should be.

I also like the idea of a RamDisk for browser/etc files.

Can anyone point me in the direction of some links that discuss the above mentioned points? Thanks a ton in advance.

Intended system:
MoBo: Minix 890GX-USB3
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 910e Deneb
RAM: G.SKILL 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666)
HDA: SSD Corsair SATAIII 2.5" 128GB
HDB: Western Digital SATAIII 2.5" 450GB
PSU: Pico 160W PSU
Case: MiniBox M350
OS: Fedora (with Win7 in VM or DualBoot)

[AndrewSerk]

Hello,
Here is a thread with some tmpfs info and Stevea mentions some ideas for ssd : http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=254756

[DBelton]

you do have some good points in not using the SSD for files written to often, like /tmp. However, you mentioned a ramdisk. I would tend to disagree with using a ramdisk these days. The memory used by a ramdisk would be better utilized by the OS instead.

About the only time I would recommend using a ramdisk is if you have memory that your OS can't use, but is addressable for use as a ramdisk (which with the OS's these days, that really won't happen)

The post by stevea that AndrewSerk gave you above has some very good information in it for using SSD in Fedora.

[flyingfsck]

Howdy,

I don't think that you need to worry about the lifetime of the SSD, but if you are anyway, then you can reduce the number of writes easily by disabling syslogd and only starting syslogd when you are investigating a problem in your system.