On Wed, 27 Apr 2022 17:08:04 +0500 "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27.04.2022 16:06, Tom Browder wrote: > > I am trying to replace the original hard drive on an old Toshiba > > laptop with a 1 TB SSD from Crucial. (I had recently successfully done > > that in an old Dell Latitude and had no problems.) > > > > I first did a clean install of Debian 11 on the old drive to ensure > > the laptop works okay. Then I installed the new SSD and it can't find > > the drive. From what I can find at Crucial, I need to install their > > Storage Executive program on a Windows host, look up the SSD to a > > USB/SATA connector on that host, and configure or install the firmware > > onto the SSD. > > > I've never heard anything like that and I've worked with many > consumer-grade SSDs. > Usually all SSDs "just work". They may come pre-partitioned and > pre-formatted, but this could be reconfigured with any standard utility > programs. > The only thing I can think of, is that it could require usage of some > vendor-specific proprietary software to setup hardware encryption and/or > to update currently flashed firmware to newer versions. There's OPAL. Presumably uncommon on consumer-grade drives, but it does require special software to configure (although not necessarily vendor specific software) and can be a pain to work with (at least if one isn't familiar with them, as I wasn't when I encountered it in the wild, in a second-hand machine ;)) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opal_Storage_Specification https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Self-encrypting_drives -- Celejar
