From: Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: OE and SSDs
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:00:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52FCFA41.5050002@balister.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52FCA09E.1070507@pseudoterminal.org>
On 02/13/2014 05:38 AM, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote:
> Hello,
>
> we are considering purchasing SSDs for our development machines, for
> faster I/O and better latency. One open question is whether to buy TLC-
> or MLC-based drives. TLCs are considerably cheaper. They would not be
> used in build bots, but on the other hand, people will build entire
> images with OE by themselves during development.
>
> So I wonder about the impact on the drive's lifespan, and whether or not
> it is severe enough to warrant the more expensive MLC drives (up to 2
> times more expensive).
>
> Did anybody made experiences with these? Any recommendations?
A lot of people use as much ram as they can fit in the box and use
tmpfs'. You might try that approach first.
Philip
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-13 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-13 10:38 OE and SSDs Carlos Rafael Giani
2014-02-13 17:00 ` Philip Balister [this message]
2014-02-14 12:46 ` Sander van Grieken
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