From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 11 09:40:42 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 305F0106566B for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:40:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@ifdnrg.com) Received: from ifdnrg29.ifdnrg.com (outbound.ifdnrg.com [193.200.98.138]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3DFB8FC1C for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:40:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.85] (93-97-172-73.zone5.bethere.co.uk [93.97.172.73]) (authenticated bits=0) by ifdnrg29.ifdnrg.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p1B9ecOx075156 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:40:39 GMT (envelope-from paul@ifdnrg.com) Message-ID: <4D550415.8060105@ifdnrg.com> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:40:37 +0000 From: Paul Macdonald User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: FreeBSD and SSD drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:40:42 -0000 Hi, Is anyone using SSD drives on freeBSD server systems? I'm attracted by the performance increases i've seen on both my desktops and laptops (quite amazing and easy upgrade if you've not tried).. I see from here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM#Operating_system_and_SSD_support that full TRIM support only comes in 8.2, I'd be interested to here peoples opinions on best uses for SSD, general purpose applications such as databases , webservers etc will benefit obviously, but i'm also curious as to disk intensive applications such as mailq's, spamassassin etc? (I presume here the lack of TRIM may degrade performance rapidly?) thanks Paul. -- ------------------------- Paul Macdonald IFDNRG Ltd Web and video hosting ------------------------- t: 0131 5548070 m: 07534206249 e: paul@ifdnrg.com w: http://www.ifdnrg.com ------------------------- IFDNRG 40 Maritime Street Edinburgh EH6 6SA -------------------------