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#1 2011-09-18 20:54:31
- ftglater
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Any Reason to put Arch on an SSD?
Hi, I currently have an SSD that I use for games and windows and for general use I'm going to install Arch on a HDD. Since it's easier to just leave the win7 SSD alone I'd only put arch there for a reason, are there any?
Assuming that Linux is lightweight and quick-booting, I take it that an SSD won't make too much of a difference in boot times anyway.
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#2 2011-09-18 20:57:27
- graysky
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Re: Any Reason to put Arch on an SSD?
Much faster on my system. Read the SSD wiki page for some suggestion.
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#3 2011-09-18 20:59:12
- karol
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Re: Any Reason to put Arch on an SSD?
It depends if you want to boot Arch fast or really fast https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=55302 - reducing the bloat and using an SSD are guaranteed to help.
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#4 2011-09-18 22:19:03
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Re: Any Reason to put Arch on an SSD?
SSD for root partition significally improves the speed of reaction of GUI to your actions, especially for KDE. The difference does not calculate as impressing ( 0.3 sec instead of 0.5), but it is feeled. Long before SSDs appeared I had to invent elaborate caching schemes to prefetch parts of /usr to memory just for this kind of speed.
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#5 2011-09-19 01:16:51
- ftglater
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Re: Any Reason to put Arch on an SSD?
SSD for root partition significally improves the speed of reaction of GUI to your actions, especially for KDE. The difference does not calculate as impressing ( 0.3 sec instead of 0.5), but it is feeled. Long before SSDs appeared I had to invent elaborate caching schemes to prefetch parts of /usr to memory just for this kind of speed.
Really? I'm actually planning to use KDE and I didn't know it lags. Is there really a noticeable lag in KDE compared to Win7 GUI?
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#6 2011-09-19 03:45:50
- davidgurvich
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Re: Any Reason to put Arch on an SSD?
Compared to Win7 there isn't any lag in KDE. Compared to a lightweight desktop there is some lag, particularly starting up.
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#7 2011-09-19 04:06:25
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Re: Any Reason to put Arch on an SSD?
The need for speed.
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#8 2011-09-19 08:43:37
- ftglater
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Re: Any Reason to put Arch on an SSD?
What's the smallest partition you can use to install arch system files? Couldn't find minimal disk space required in the wiki.
I also assume it would be possible to install grub on the secondary disk MBR to boot from and put the rest of grub on the arch system partition of the first disk to avoid screwing with the win7 MBR?
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