From: dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:10:25 -0400, Jim Beard  wrote:   
      
   > Perhaps I am misunderstanding the role of the SSD.  I thought the   
   > OS and files in use would automagically go on the SSD, which   
   > would be faster than retrieving them from HD or swap.   
      
   An ssd drive is just another drive.  What gets put on it depends   
   on the partitions/filesystems you create, and what mount points   
   you assign to them.   
      
   One thing I've learned the hard way.  Don't put encrypted filesystems   
   on an ssd drive.  The discard option doesn't work then, so eventually   
   the drive will slow to a crawl, until the manufactures secure erase is   
   run.   
      
   On my roughly one year old drive, smart is currently showing   
   Lifetime_Writes_From_Host 26,312,416,740, and except for having to   
   erase it once, it's working quite well.   
      
   Where an ssd drive really shines, is with a program that reads a lot   
   of small files.  I use opera for email, usenet, rss feeds etc. With   
   over 70,000 messages stored, it starts and loads the message database   
   (one file per message) and loads 25 web pages I had open, in about   
   14 seconds,   
      
   Regards, Dave Hodgins   
      
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