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Thank you,<br>
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John<br>
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On 03/27/2015 05:16 PM, Beth Burton-Krahn wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 1:56 PM, John
Blomfield <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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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?<br>
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For those interested my research has led me to the
following:<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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!<br>
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John<br>
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On 03/26/2015 02:49 PM, John Blomfield wrote:<br>
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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:<br>
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sdb1 16GB, file system "unrecognized", label "HFS"<br>
sdb2 6GB, file system "ntfs", label "IntelRST"<br>
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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?<br>
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I would like to make use of this 24GB of SSD in some way
with the OpenSuse installation. My options seem to be:<br>
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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.<br>
b) Same as above, use BCache but format the whole of the
24GB ext4 and hope that this does not break Windows.<br>
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.<br>
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My questions are if I format the SSD, will this break
Windows or will it just run slower without a cache?<br>
Is there any benefit from running BCache on an SSD
compared to putting the whole OS all on an SSD?<br>
What do you think the HFS partition is for?<br>
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Thanks John<br>
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