Re: UEFI

[Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 18:44:44 -0600
Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:

> Steve Litt wrote:
> > Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> > > I would not call a 256 BG SSd "small" - the biggest I own is 60GB,
> > > and all the system runs on it (on a laptop).
> >
> > You're not going to save much money going below 256GB. I think below
> > 128GB, the law of diminishing returns makes it useless to go any
> > smaller.
> 
> I completely agree.  Find where the price performance break is best
> and buy there.
> 
> Humorously a while ago I ordered a cheap 60G SSD drive from a well
> known vendor and they included a 30G SSD free in my order too.  I
> assume they had a lot of 30G SSDs that they could not sell and didn't
> want the inventory and started giving them away to people.  A nice win
> for me since I actually did have a good use for it.  Tells me that 30G
> has already fallen off the bottom.  I expect 60G to be soon
> following.  Maybe I will buy a 120G and get a 60G free soon?  Hope
> so! :-)

And the real beauty is, if you're building a server, 30GB for / and
and maybe /boot is plenty, and of course by default /usr and /opt go in
the SSD. There should be plenty of room as long as /var, /etc, /home go
on a nice WD Black 7200.

SteveT





SteveT

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