recommendations for SSD drive as first disk for fedora 18?

[Aaron Gray]

I have one of these but on my windows 8 laptop :-


http://www.dabs.com/products/samsung-250gb-840-series-sata-6gb-s-2-5--solid-state-drive-8BNX.html

Its a good deal but SSD's are coming down in price dramatically.

Aaron



On 24 January 2013 14:38, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht <
wolfgang.rupprecht at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Rick Stevens <ricks at alldigital.com> writes:
> > And please, PLEASE make sure you have a reliable and consistent backup
> > procedure. I like SSDs, but when they die they generally die
> > catastrophically and completely (at least in my experience) and you may
> > not be able to recover anything from them.
>
> You can do rsyncs from /etc/cron.daily onto a spare, normally unmounted
> and spun-down, disk.  That way if your SSD ever goes south, you lose at
> most a day's work.  When I got my ssd I wasn't sure what to expect, so I
> figured I'd play it safe.  The only time I needed the daily backup was a
> goof that did involve the ssd, but was the result of confusion as to
> which directory I was in.  The incredible speed of the SSD allowed me to
> delete a few thousand pictures in approximately a second. SSD's:
> allowing you to make mistakes faster than ever before.  ;-)
>
> -wolfgang
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