I've been using an SSD with various flavours of Linux for several years, and have yet to have any problems at all.
Quite the opposite really; much better performance ( of course) and a definite sense of greater reliability because there are no moving parts. Only recently I swapped out the on-board 320GB hard drive that came with an Acer C7 chromebook for a 64GB SSD unit. No problems at all, but faster performance (10 seconds from power on to login) and better battery life. I have an old but reliable Asus 901 NetBook that has only ever had a 16GB SSD unit. It runs Kubuntu 13.04 quite happily. I like to tweak a Linux install on SSD by modifying a few /etc/fstab parameters, but apart from that, everything is the same as for an ordinary hard drive config. As a precaution, I run smartctl self tests periodically, to make sure I get early warning of issues; so far all three SSDs have been 100% clean. Finally, I do full backups regularly - but that's because of good practice, not concerns over the SSD. SSD = highly recommended for Linux, based on my experience. On 7 Oct 2013 20:37, "Sam Davis" <samgda...@live.co.uk> wrote: > No problems from my ssd so far on Debian Wheezy, home partition is kept on > hdd though. > > https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/V81f6d7QK9j > > Linus uses(used) them too, it seems! > ________________________________ > From: c...@pampru.org<mailto:c...@pampru.org> > Sent: 07/10/2013 19:08 > To: Dorset Linux User Group<mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk> > Subject: [Dorset] Linux problems with SSD drives > > Hi all, > > I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on a PC which has an SSD drive, but > lots of problems have arisen and usability is steadily getting worse > with an increasing number of regular functions no longer working and > many freezes needing complete shut-downs. 12.04 LTS seemed to be very > flakey indeed. > > I mentioned it to John Dubery and he though it may be the SSD that is > not suited to Linux, and yesterday my son, an IT-based Systems Design > manager, said that an IT supplier told him not to use SSD drives with > Linux. > > Has anyone else experienced, or is aware of, problems when using SSD > drives with Linux? > > With reliability of SSDs now surpassing rotating-disk drives and SSD > drives increasingly being supplied as standard in laptops and PCs, > this could be a serious issue for Linux users. > > Charles Miller > > > -- > Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-11-05 20:00 > Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk > How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue > -- > Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-11-05 20:00 > Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk > How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-11-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
