<div dir="ltr">On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Gerald Davies <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gerald.davies@gmail.com" target="_blank">gerald.davies@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">One thing that used to be talked about years ago was correctly</span><br>
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aligning partitions for an SSD to improve performance. I'm not sure<br>
if distros do this automatically these days. Also check for firmware<br>
updates for each SSD that you use.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>I wasn't told anything at all about alignments - I'd note, though, that these days SSDs are pretty commonplace - a lot of new systems ship with them as standard - so I'd imagine that much of the magic required is also standard these days.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>ureadahead, for example, was built around solid state, originally, as I recall, and grew spinny support later.</div><div style><br></div><div style>As for firmware updates, that's simply new to me - but makes sense.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Dave</div></div></div></div>