Hello guys!
I have opted to post on this forum since in the past I received consistently good replies and feedback from STH members. This time I'm looking for recommendations for a high-performance SSD for a Centos workstation.
I spent the better part of last night and the day before searching the web for a clear recommendation, but there are so many brands, models out there, and so many benchmarks that I got lost and now I'm not sure which one to pick.
The needs:
Current workstation is using an ASUS M5A97 mobo with 2x 4GB DDR3 1333 RAM and a Hitachi HDS721010CLA332.
The hard drive is extremely SLOWWW... Launching Firefox takes up to 20 seconds, the HDD light is consistently on while I end up waiting for everything on a constant basis, indicating the HDD is the bottleneck. Same with pretty much everything else. SWAP usage is zero.
I do not have huge storage needs. I use my FreeNAS server for storage via NFS, and locally perhaps I will need around 100GB? Current setup uses 25GB out of 55GB for root (/) and 1.8GB for /home...
I guess a 120-180GB SSD would suffice. I initially was going to go for a Samsung 850 Pro but in the light of recent TRIM issues with the Linux kernel, I'd rather stay away. Next contender was Sandisk's Extreme Pro but they dont make it in less than 240GB. Waste of money which I'd rather put in one of my servers which needs it..
Performance is really what I'm looking for here. Reliability comes second since I do backups regularly and like I said, I use my remote server consistently for storage. This SSD will be mostly for the OS and applications, and offer a little bit of storage space for /home for temporary use.
I'll continue looking up, if someone was in the same boat and has a suggestion, please post!
Greetings
I have opted to post on this forum since in the past I received consistently good replies and feedback from STH members. This time I'm looking for recommendations for a high-performance SSD for a Centos workstation.
I spent the better part of last night and the day before searching the web for a clear recommendation, but there are so many brands, models out there, and so many benchmarks that I got lost and now I'm not sure which one to pick.
The needs:
Current workstation is using an ASUS M5A97 mobo with 2x 4GB DDR3 1333 RAM and a Hitachi HDS721010CLA332.
The hard drive is extremely SLOWWW... Launching Firefox takes up to 20 seconds, the HDD light is consistently on while I end up waiting for everything on a constant basis, indicating the HDD is the bottleneck. Same with pretty much everything else. SWAP usage is zero.
I do not have huge storage needs. I use my FreeNAS server for storage via NFS, and locally perhaps I will need around 100GB? Current setup uses 25GB out of 55GB for root (/) and 1.8GB for /home...
I guess a 120-180GB SSD would suffice. I initially was going to go for a Samsung 850 Pro but in the light of recent TRIM issues with the Linux kernel, I'd rather stay away. Next contender was Sandisk's Extreme Pro but they dont make it in less than 240GB. Waste of money which I'd rather put in one of my servers which needs it..
Performance is really what I'm looking for here. Reliability comes second since I do backups regularly and like I said, I use my remote server consistently for storage. This SSD will be mostly for the OS and applications, and offer a little bit of storage space for /home for temporary use.
I'll continue looking up, if someone was in the same boat and has a suggestion, please post!
Greetings