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Zetsumei

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From: NC

Registered: 2007-09-13

Posts: 156

Should I use a 16gb SSD for my /boot and / partitions?

Should I use a SSD for /boot and / partitions or just not even bother with one so small?

EDIT:  For the sake of another thread.  You think Arch would run just fine on a PIII 733mhz, 128mb RAM computer?  Grandmother gave it to me after she got herself a new one (one I built lol).

Last edited by Zetsumei (2009-04-14 23:36:08)

Berticus

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 731

Re: Should I use a 16gb SSD for my /boot and / partitions?

PIII should be i686, so no problems there. Of course, you'll have to go lightweight with that.

As for SSD, that's really up to you. Personally, I would do it. Would love inexpensive SSD hard drives that could hold TB's.

completist

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From: /media/knock_knock

Registered: 2009-02-21

Posts: 62

Re: Should I use a 16gb SSD for my /boot and / partitions?

As for SSD, that's really up to you. Personally, I would do it. Would love inexpensive SSD hard drives that could hold TB's.

Its only a matter of time before prices on SSD drop so I'm gonna wait for bigger to be less expensive.

banshee28

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Registered: 2008-10-18

Posts: 336

Re: Should I use a 16gb SSD for my /boot and / partitions?

I just installed a i686 build on this pc with a nice Intel SSD. Boot time is at least twice as quick if not more, installs and many other things are quicker also! Overall a snappier more responsive system. I would definately go for it if you can get the ssd.

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