Re: Lenovo x300

Wodans <wodans@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi All,

I just got my hands on a Lenovo X300. It has a solid state driver at
64GB instead of a conventional HD. Of course I'd like to get opensuse up
and running on the laptop. I read somewhere that you should not use a
SWAP partition to extend the lifetime of the solid state drive. Anyone
has any idea if this is true for the drive included in the x300. Also
pointers to get the x300 working smooth would be appreciated?

There is a limit as to how many times solid state memory can
be written to. It is a large number and nobody knows how large
(yet).

To be on the safe side, if you have 1 gig of memory or more you
very likely don't need swap space unless you deal in VERY large
chunks of data.

Second, turn of the writing of last access times to the "disk".
One of the things linux and other un*x type systems do is keep
a last accessed time for each file. Thus every time you use
a file the last access time is incremented. Common system files
take a beating in this.

Those are the two major things I've heard about folks doing.

This will all be better known in the future as it seems to me
that solid state hard drives are the wave of the future. I've
got an Asus eeePC with a 4 gig "hard drive" and space for a
Secure Digital card. I put an 8 gig SD card in that. My
thinking is that I will set things up so that the removable
8 gig SD card gets used up first.

But these are not the only such machines coming to the market.
I do think that all major distros will, in a year or so, have
distros for solid state drive machines. They will lose a lot
of the current bloat in doing so.

By the way, openSUSE already has such a thing. It is unofficial
but available on the openSUSE site.

http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_on_the_EeePC

or Google for "eeeSUSE".

--
--- Paul J. Gans
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