Tweaking Solid State Drive Performance On Linux 33
perlow writes "While Solid State Drives are expensive and shouldn't be used exclusively for primary storage, they perform exceedingly well for things like MySQL databases, provided you tweak your kernel, BIOS, and filesystems accordingly. Here's a few tips to get excellent performance out of your new $500-$900 investment on a Linux system."
Re:Partitioning (Score:3, Informative)
How do you figure that? Modern Unix filesystems actively avoid fragmentation by being careful about allocating blocks to files. With more free space, a filesystem has more options as to where to place a new file. It's better to have one big filesystem with 10G free, than four or five with only about 2-3G free each.