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Minimum Disk Space Requirements: 12 or 20GB?

Hey Everyone,

I'm looking at installing Astaro 7.5 (which by all accounts looks pretty damn sweet!), however I am wanting to confirm what the minimum disk space requirements are as I have found 2 conflicting sizes; 12GB & 20GB.

Why do I care? I'm hoping to use an old 15GB SSD I picked up for free so that my firewall is A) Quiet, and B) Reliable.

So if anyone can enlighten me as to the minimum / recommended space requirements (& what may increase this), I would be most appreciative!

Cheers!

Sam.

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0 William Warren over 15 years ago

i wouldn't use the ssd with ask 7.x as hte multitude of small writes it does will degrade the performance of the drive. I would go with the smallest hdd until v8 comes out.

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0 Sambo over 15 years ago in reply to William Warren

Naa, won't be a problem as the drive uses wear-leveling to mitigate this. In any case, I'd still like to know the min space requirements.
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0 William Warren over 15 years ago in reply to Sambo

Naa, won't be a problem as the drive uses wear-leveling to mitigate this.  In any case, I'd still like to know the min space requirements.

this has nothing to do with wear leveling.  There are several things about SSD's folks need to understand.

The SSD Anthology: Understanding SSDs and New Drives from OCZ - AnandTech :: Your Source for Hardware Analysis and News

for the full skinny read the article form the beginning.  Older ssd's do NOT have built in routines for "garbage collection" and this leads to the ssd's performance tanking over time.  Environments with lots of tiny writes really can cause ssd's an issue.

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0 Sambo over 15 years ago in reply to William Warren

Ah yes, the old 'Trim' issue eh? Yes I am aware of the potential pitfalls of that one, thanks.

So... minimum space requirements anyone? [:)]
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0 William Warren over 15 years ago

it's more than just trim..it's the latency of the controller. You can have a Trim'ed drive but if it take .5 seconds to write a 4k block your system is going to perform as if it's running off a livecd.

minimum is 20 gigs.

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0 Sambo over 15 years ago in reply to William Warren

minimum is 20 gigs.

Hmm, I was afraid of that. Any ideas how hard it would be to re-configure Astaro to write logs / swap etc on a seperate HDD?
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0 William Warren over 15 years ago

you'd have to rewrite quite a few routines..not to mention the loss of any kind of support.

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0 Sambo over 15 years ago in reply to William Warren

Right, so not that easy then [:)]

Thanks for the info.
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0 AngeloC over 15 years ago

it is 20 yes. I will have that older 12gb figure corrected immediately. Thanks for catching that.
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0 William Warren over 15 years ago

Angelo i had to dig for a bit to find that information on the main site..i pulled it out of my partner docs..after i figured it out on the main site(it was principle at that point..)

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