Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 07:07:03AM -0400, songbird wrote: ... >> When trying to see what current recommendations are for setting >> up SSDs I see no mentions of this at all? Has this changed? ... > Just don't worry about it unless you have an unusually heavy write load.
it isn't much IMO. i do certain things to keep my system tidy. ... > (Just do "smartcl -A /dev/blah" to see all the attributes without the > JSON output I used just to make it presentable in this email.) things look ok with my existing SSDs. ...efi... > The recommended size of an EFI SYstem Partition (ESP) is up for debate > and is not related to what kind of drive you put it on: > > > https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI#EFI_System_Partition_.28ESP.29_recommended_size ah ok, tks. >> The rest of the new drive will just be one large partition. > > RAID is worth it so as not to have to stop working to reinstall from > backups. i have stable partition on different device so not expecting any downtime if i really need to get back to a reliable state. >> The 2nd new SSD will be for consolidating my backups (that are on >> a smaller SSD at the moment plus also on an external drive that is >> not used frequently - I don't trust it as it has been knocked off >> the table but until it gives up entirely it is a backup that can't >> be messed with as it is not mounted or powered on often). > > SSDs have no moving parts so withstand sudden impacts a lot better than > HDDs do. It's probably fine. the external drive is the spinning rust kind so yes i am a bit more worried about it, plus there's some kind of loose rattling part inside (so i won't be shaking it any more if i can help it). >> I don't use the discard options on the mounts or filesystems >> and also don't run fstrim automatically, I will eventually set >> this up to run monthly. > > fstrim runs by default on all Debian installs for years so you must have > gone out of your way to disable this. Why? because i didn't want it to run. i do not want automatic much of anything so i turn them off when i can find them. there's quite a long list now of stuff i hated when i found out about it and turned it off and a few i'd like to turn off but can't without uninstalling most of my system. :( as i said i will probably eventually turn it back on for a once a month run, but that should be plenty for my use case. thanks, songbird
