[ubuntu-arizona] First SSD

[Robert Earl]

Greetings!

Well, I have admittedly limited experience with SSDs, but this is a
positive review. Several years ago, I carved out a budget of a few hundred
dollars, in order to obsolete my Windows XP laptop. The plan was to
purchase an SSD and a copy of Windows 8.1 so I could virtualize it. Well,
the plan succeeded. I did use the SSD for my root/system drive under
Ubuntu, and this resulted in massive speedups, especially for the scheduled
update/upgrade/reboot cycles.

My choice of drive was the SATA Intel 480GB:
[    1.883124] ata2.00: ATA-8: INTEL SSDSC2BP480G4, L2010420, max UDMA/133
[    1.889056] scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      INTEL SSDSC2BP48
0420 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5

​My existing system is of 2010 vintage, an i5-2400 with 8GB RAM and a 1TB
Western Digital Green HDD.​ My current system is Ubuntu 18.04 bionic; I run
VirtualBox with various Linux and Windows VMs. For the most part, I utilize
the SSD for the VDIs as well, and this tends to help, especially the
sluggish ones such as Windows 2016. I do cheat and store a little personal
data on it, because it has space; my /home/rearl lives on the HDD, and so
do my online backups.

I have been duly impressed by SSD performance and reliability, such that I
won't easily consider anything else now. My next laptop will have only SSD
in it. My next disk expansion will likely be SSD, although I've been
considering a NAS, and it is said I want HDDs in a networked storage
appliance, so the jury is still out there.

I would certainly opt for the Intel brand again. The price was right, the
packaging was utilitarian, and the installation was straightforward. There
have been no errors or crashes or any faults traced back to this drive, and
it has now run several years for 24/7 operations.

I hope this helps! I am happy to answer any other questions for you!

Sincerely yours,
Sir Knight Robert Andrew Earl

On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 12:51 PM, Stephen M <smelheim85 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I know that this has been asked a few times but I'm looking for
> suggestions.  I have a 6core CPU with around 8 GB of RAM.  I have a TB HDD
> with Ubuntu 16.04 installed.  I have separate partitions for my
> directories.  I want to look in getting a small SSD that will hold the root
> directory.
>
> So what i'd like to know from others to start is what's a good read/write?
> Next would be the manufacturer,  I've used SanDisk and Kingston memory.
> These are the only things I need to know.  Being that it's root it doesn't
> need to be large.
>
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