Archive for July, 2009

Ensuring SSD alignment with parted tool
Monday, July 20th, 2009

I’ll show how to partition your SSD Vertex disk keeping the desired alignment to SSD erase block size. The following links were useful to point me that align partitions increase the SSD performance and how to complete the first part of the Journey to set up my Ubuntu+MacBook Pro+Vertex SSD.
http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/02/20/aligning-filesystems-to-an-ssds-erase-block-size/
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=48309
You would ask me why don’t […]

Macbook Pro 5,1 + OCZ Vetex 120GB + Ubuntu
Monday, July 20th, 2009

I’ve just finished.
After buy a SSD Vertex, I finally get my whole system working and now I can say: it’s not hard, it’s tricky. I’ll write some posts to let my efforts registered and maybe help someone to get the same success.
First of all, why did I buy a SSD?
I’m addicted to I/O performance. Actually […]