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[John Blomfield]

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On 03/27/2015 05:16 PM, Beth Burton-Krahn wrote:
> Please remove me from this list
>
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 1:56 PM, John Blomfield <jabfield at shaw.ca 
> <mailto:jabfield at shaw.ca>> wrote:
>
>     I guess there is not a lot of interest in this topic on this list;
>     maybe because with the cost of SSD's dropping there is a trend for
>     laptops to be built solely with an SSD and no Hard Drive and
>     therefore no need for an SSD cache? This trend tends perhaps to
>     make SSD caching to speed up HD performance redundant?
>
>     For those interested my research has led me to the following:
>
>     a) The 6GB ntfs SSD partition is used by Intel's Rapid Start
>     technology, basically providing fast boot (that's still a joke for
>     Windows). Booting OpenSuse OS and launching Linux applications
>     from an SSD on my desktop is like lighting.
>
>     b) The 16GB hfs SSD partition is used by ExpressCache (not sure
>     why it uses Apple's hfs file system) and its function is to cache
>     HD transfers and speed up HD access including fast restore from
>     sleep and hibernation.
>
>     It seems laptop owners have disabled these partitions and used the
>     SSD for other purposes so I might give it a go. If worst comes to
>     worst and Windows 8 is broken so be it! If I need Windows I have a
>     VirtualBox Windows Vista vdi, which I use on my desktop that I can
>     copy. I have kept Windows 8 on my laptop mainly to check its
>     features if my daughter needs help doing something on Windows 8. I
>     have not convinced her to change to Linux yet!
>
>     John
>
>
>
>
>
>     On 03/26/2015 02:49 PM, John Blomfield wrote:
>
>         I have an ASUS s56c laptop with a 750GB Hard Drive and a 24GB
>         SSD cache that dual boots Windows and OpenSuse 12.3. Its used
>         mainly by my wife and I haven't paid much attention to until
>         recently when I upgraded OpenSuse to 13.1. We need to keep
>         Windows for very very occasionally used programs. However, I
>         noticed that the laptop had an 24GB SSD drive which is
>         presumably used by Windows. The SSD is partitioned according
>         to GParted like this:
>
>         sdb1    16GB, file system "unrecognized", label "HFS"
>         sdb2    6GB, file system "ntfs", label "IntelRST"
>
>         Now it would seem IntelRST refers to Intel's caching software
>         and HFS may refer to Apple's Mac file system? Perhaps GParted
>         is not able to read an HFS file system? However, I don't know
>         why a Mac file system would be on this computer?
>
>         I would like to make use of this 24GB of SSD in some way with
>         the OpenSuse installation. My options seem to be:
>
>         a) If the 16GB HFS partition is not used by Windows I could
>         format it ext4 and figure out how to use Linux's Bcache software.
>         b) Same as above, use BCache but format the whole of the 24GB
>         ext4 and hope that this does not break Windows.
>         c) Install OpenSuse 13.1 on the whole 24GB of SSD, which is
>         more than enough for my OS with a separate Home directory on
>         the Hard Drive. Again assuming this will not break Windows.
>
>         My questions are if I format the SSD, will this break Windows
>         or will it just run slower without a cache?
>         Is there any benefit from running BCache on an SSD compared to
>         putting the whole OS all on an SSD?
>         What do you think the HFS partition is for?
>
>         Thanks John
>
>
>
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>     John Blomfield
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