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msata SSD and Virtualization

5 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/msata-ssd-and-virtualization.168764/

amrit1
amrit1 Original post #1
Jan 10, 2013 at 11:55 PM
I just bought an ultrabook- Lenovo U410. This ultrabook comes with an SSD and an HDD in RAID-0 configuration. SSD 24GB in size and is used for cache purpose by Intel Rapid Storage software which makes eveything from Booting to starting programs (like Chrome) very fast. Now I want to use linux on VMWare Player, but since SSDs have short write cycles I'm afraid to do so since everything is first written on the SSD and then on HDD. Now please guide me if I should continue and use Linux on VMWare.
I searched online and understood that since virtual machine's files are large, there will be a lot of reads and writes on the SSD, that's why I'm worried about it.
d6bmg
d6bmg #2
Jan 11, 2013 at 10:05 PM
If it is a caching SSD, then its work is that. Don't worry about that.
Gauravs90
Jan 12, 2013 at 2:20 PM
Don't worry nowadays SSD's have very good lifetime.
amrit1
amrit1 #5
Jan 12, 2013 at 8:41 PM
thanks for your feedbacks. I'll go ahead and use VMs on it. :)