Intel’s Solid State Disk
So apparently Linus Torvald now has a blog, as seen on Reddit Hell as frozen over. But I am glad, I enjoy reading into some of the innovative minds of our age. One of his articles is raving over Intel’s new SSD. So much so, he has me excited waiting for it to come out.
I know there has been some anti solid state disk articles out there, but I think they are the future. Soon CD / DVD drives will be a think of the past and machines will have no moving parts (one day even the fans will be gone). But I’ve been eye-balling SSD’s for about a year now, watching and waiting. Knowing the performance and pricing will collide into such a beautiful package that I won’t be able to resist any more. From what I can find out know, the X25-M from Intel will be 80GB and cast around 650 bucks. Price per GB that is still pretty high, but that is almost to the point I can’t wait. And come Christmas, I won’t be able to wait much longer. AnandTech has some pretty amazing numbers on this drive. I find myself getting giddy every time I read a new article on this drive, or when I see specs published about it. I really can’t wait.
Right now I have a WD 300GB, and it is fast, and has plenty of storage, but I am barely using 50GB and that is with several DVD iso’s on it. I could easily budget my laptop storage to under 80GB, which is another plus, is the drive won’t slow down the fuller it gets. Oh I can’t wait!
Why “/boot as ext2, /home as ext3 and everything else as ext4″ ??
It not better to format everything as ext4 ?
I use ext2 for my /boot b/c it is easily readable by all boot cd’s, etc. It is also so small, there is no need for advanced file systems. All it is really doing is a loading a few files totaling no more the a few MB. My kernel image is 2.8MB and the information for grub, including my splash image is under 2MB.
As for /home as ext3. I was still leery of ext4′s stability. So leaving /home as ext3 allows for a stable filesystem holding all my documents. Then I use ext4 on / , /var, and /usr/portage.
Since this post though I have been happy with ext4 and went ahead and moved my /home to it also. I’ve been very happy with ext4. Can’t wait for btrfs to come out