recommendations for SSD drive as first disk for fedora 18?

[Sergio Augusto Vladisauskis]

How to maximise SSD performance with Linux:
http://apcmag.com/how-to-maximise-ssd-performance-with-linux.htm

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2013/1/26 Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists at gmail.com>

> 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
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> Its a good deal but SSD's are coming down in price dramatically.
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> Aaron
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> On 24 January 2013 14:38, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht <
> wolfgang.rupprecht at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>
>> 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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