Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

[Michael Cronenworth]

Konstantin Svist wrote:
> * align the FS properly (this'll be the biggest PITA to figure out
> whether it's done correctly, seek help from google). Latest firmware on
> Intel SSDs claims to not need this, but I'd do it just in case.

Don't need to do it, period.

> * enable noatime,nodiratime in /etc/fstab -- reduces number of writes

It's the default for all file systems, SSD or not, you don't need to do 
this.

> * if you don't much care for the logs in /var/log, turn them off or
> redirect to a ram drive -- reduces number of writes

With the MTBF of the SSDs today, this is unnecessary.

> * switch io scheduler to noop -- speeds up random reads

I'd love to see benches on this; not butt-dyno opinion blog pages.