[IriDium]

To speed it up even more - boot from a SSD.

I had a spare one after giving up on Windoze 7 (Didn't even look at 8), so I created a 8G boot partition and the rest as ext4 for movies etc. Used xbian-config to clone xbian and then set the boot as the UUID of the xbian-copy partition.

It booted perfectly and ran like a dream - the gui was much smoother and a 1TB USB2 movie drive was scanned in around 10 minutes (Normally about 30 - 40 minutes when on the SD card.

However, before you rush out and buy a SSD, there is an issue with fstrim or to be more precise, the caddy it is in. It appears that not all caddies support the trim feature, and worse, no way of knowing from the literature if it is supported.

So whilst at first it is a superb addition, over time it will degrade until it is no faster than a 3.5” floppy. My only solution so far is to remove the SSD from the caddy, put it in my main machine and run fstrim from there and then put it back in the caddy. Too much hassle for me.

So does anyone know of a 2.5” SSD caddy that DOES support fstrim?