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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?
Yeah thats a good website, lots of valuable info. I will try to optimize as much as I can. In the meantime I wonder how reiser will affect performance for the SSD. Seems they recommend ext4 ?!
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.
Umm no the Journal is not for recovering from bad sector reads or low level hard drive corruption, its there to make sure you data and meta-data is sane after a unplanned shut-down/reboot.
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