I've been wanting one these for a while but I am holding out for at least a small price drop. But I was wondering what those who are using them think? Given Slackware's nature I am guessing it smokes?

I have been using SSD on my Slackware server for awhile, it is really an immense performance increase if used properly.

Just out of curiosity are you using Ext4 with journaling? I've been reading up on SSD's and pretty much got all the info I need, but there seems to be debate about the benefits (if any) of disabling journaling. Some say its faster without, others say there is no difference.

I don't use journaling, there is really no point. Journaling is in place to help recover from read/write errors, but since a SSD can't get bad sectors or any of the other ailments of traditional HDDs, it has little effect. An SSD will still go bad, but when it does it will be a catastrophic type of failure, and require the drive to be replaced immediately, at which point you just recover from backups. In other words, a journal is not going to help you when an SSD finally bites the dust. You could still have problems with a hard shutdown, but nothing fsck can't fix if it ever happens.

The drive is also mounted with noatime and nodiratime options, which greatly reduce filesystem overhead. In actuality, these two options will save you more repeated writes and general overhead than disabling journaling anyway.

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Ive been using a seagate hybrid hard drive since my old one crashed, i notice a much faster boot time now.

Hi,

I purchased a Intel X25-V SATA SSD G2 40GB back in Dec/10. Put it into my laptop. Love it! Look at Intel solid state drives SSDs or Get more details about Intel SSDs;
I'm rather tired of hearing people misstate about R/W for a SSD. Get some facts from the above links, it is all there.

Overall system performance gains, low heat (I still use a laptop cooler) and I can tell the differences..

Prices for SSD are falling and I'll purchase another but with higher capacity.

I use external drives for intermediate storage since they are cheap and higher capacity. You can really tell the difference when read/write therefore a noticeable performance gain.

For those of you using an SSD, what file systems do you use?

Hi,

Get it from the horses mouth: View Competitive Performance Analysis

The above is for Intel.

@ rmjohnso: I'm using ext4. I have an OCZ Vertex 30G in my laptop and it's pretty amazing.

I have a mushkin 60G Callisto deluxe in my 64b desktop with ext4. I was using a wd raptor before and didn't notice much difference. They really start to shine when running 2-3 in raid-0 but Linux still puts some stuff on only one drive till the kernel is loaded I think. I think in a laptop it would be a bigger difference.

ext4 with journaling here. When you get a drive, you should get a quality drive that should work for a long time regardless the filesystem. Of course, you should learn a bit about how SSDs work, and pick the right filesystem options for your applications.

Journaling ext4 on a Intel 160GB X18-m G2 (SSDSA1M160G2LE)

Have also been reading up on the subject, and a lot of controversial reports. Now settled for mounting with options 'relatime' (default) and 'discard' to enable TRIM.

Any thoughts about the optimal scheduler? E.g. deadline or noop?

Can't compare performance with a HDD as the SSD came with a new laptop. But I'm pretty satisfied with

:-)

This article was loaded with useful info
http://cptl.org/wp/index.php/2010/03...ives-in-linux/

I wish I was, but they're still too damn spendy...

OCZ Vertex 40GB with reiserfs. Runs like a rocket on my htpc. Why reiserfs? Dont know, I have been using reiser since 2004 and did not even think about which fs I was gonna use on this ssd drive when I formatted it...

What do you mean by "if used properly"? Is there some settings, tweaks or improvements to implement to get the max out of it?