From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from starfish.geekisp.com (starfish.geekisp.com [216.168.135.166]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A7706E9F9 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 17:01:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 12412 invoked by uid 1003); 13 Feb 2014 17:01:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.122?) (philip@opensdr.com@71.171.41.155) by mail.geekisp.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 13 Feb 2014 17:01:08 -0000 Message-ID: <52FCFA41.5050002@balister.org> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:00:49 -0500 From: Philip Balister User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <52FCA09E.1070507@pseudoterminal.org> In-Reply-To: <52FCA09E.1070507@pseudoterminal.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Subject: Re: OE and SSDs X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 17:01:10 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-devel mailing list > Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel > >