[mythtv-users] mythtv-users Digest, Vol 127, Issue 60

James Linder jam at tigger.ws
Wed Oct 23 13:46:58 UTC 2013


On 23/10/2013, at 8:00 PM, mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org wrote:

>> If you use ssd then root partition should be much bigger than needed to give wear levelling a place to roam about.
> 
> Any modern ssd uses all unwritten space for wear
> leveling.  If your ssd needs room to breath (not all
> do, see the new Intel DC S3700), simply do not
> allocate all the space from the drive to partitions,
> leaving free cells.
> 
> And most modern ssds and OSs can use trim
> (for sata, unmap for sas), to release any "free"
> space back to the drive for wear leveling and
> reallocation purposes.  The filesystem discard
> option needs to be set appropriately (or defaulted
> to).

And I apologise for letting such a stupid Subject sneak into my mail

James


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