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Re: Advice on system purchase



On 10/28/2012 12:36 PM, David Christensen wrote:
On 10/27/12 23:10, David Christensen wrote:
 > I finally settled on Wheezy OOTB as much as possible with LUKS, ext4,
 > and VirtualBox,

Correction:  And Intel HD 2000 graphics support, single head.


On 10/28/12 04:32, Mark Allums wrote:
I don't bother with SSDs on Linux machines for personal use.

I believe my SSD is the single most important factor contributing to
overall responsiveness of my desktop machine.  The latency is what makes
the difference -- hundreds of seeks at 5.5 ms each for a Western Digital
WD800JB HDD take seconds.  At 85 us per seek, an Intel 520 series SSD
can do the same in a tiny fraction of a second.  The key parameter is
random input/output operations per second.

The principle is sound, but the prices are 10x too much.

Apropos:

ext4 has been found to be dangerous right now in kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6, due to a data loss bug. They are working on the patch as we speak, of course, but in the meantime, minimize the number of times you mount the ext4 filesystem.

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/10/24/1848203/ext4-data-corruption-bug-hits-linux-kernel



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