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#1 2009-04-27 00:27:46
- slyson
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Would too much compiling from AUR damage an eeepc ssd?
I installed debian-eee instead of Arch on my eeepc because I wanted to only install binaries. Why? At the time I thought compilation from AUR would be too slow on an eeepc, or that it might damage the ssd because of all the files writes. But recently I read an article stating that it would take years of constant file writing to break an ssd. Does anyone else compile packages on their eeepc?
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#2 2009-04-27 03:06:56
- josomebody
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Re: Would too much compiling from AUR damage an eeepc ssd?
I've been compiling packages on mine for about six months now. I was nervous about it at first, but the drive seems fine so far. I think journaling and too much logging on the disk are about the only things most users do that might make it die before its time, and I'm not even too sure about that.
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#3 2009-04-27 06:19:52
- bender02
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Re: Would too much compiling from AUR damage an eeepc ssd?
Why don't you mount /tmp as tmpfs (so only in memory) and then compile there? Unless you're compiling something really big, it should fit there, and also this way you eliminate any writes to any drive, so it speeds up the compilation.
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#4 2009-04-27 06:52:47
- sand_man
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Re: Would too much compiling from AUR damage an eeepc ssd?
I think people worry about the lifetime of SSDs way too much.
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#5 2009-04-27 07:06:02
- mikesd
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Re: Would too much compiling from AUR damage an eeepc ssd?
I think people worry about the lifetime of SSDs way too much.
Yeah I'd love to see some form of stats published for SSD drives. I'm still setting my SSD netbook up and while I have used tmpfs to reduce writes in /tmp and am looking at /var/log I often wonder if it is really required.
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#6 2009-04-27 08:59:27
- Wilco
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Re: Would too much compiling from AUR damage an eeepc ssd?
I don't have an SSD on my eee but a harddrive. Still the temperature of the CPU gets very high 60-70 C.
As I recall, both excessive writing to an SSD or high CPU temperatures are not a big problem but they do shorten the lifetime of the hardware a bit.
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