On 16/4/23 06:47, Dale wrote:
Howdy,
I finally broke down and bought a SSD. It's a Samsung V-Nand 870 EVO
500GB. My current OS sits on a 160GB drive so should be plenty. I plan
to even add a boot image for the Gentoo LiveGUI thingy, maybe Knoppix or
something plus my usual OS. By the way, caught one for sale for
$40.00. It has a production date of 5/2021.
My question is this. Do I need anything special in the kernel or
special fstab options for this thing? I know at one point there was
folks having problems with certain settings. I did some googling and it
seems to be worked out but I want to be sure I don't blow this thing up
or something.
Anything else that makes these special? Any tips or tricks?
Dale
:-) :-)
P. S. I'm hoping this will make my system a little more responsive.
Maybe. Either way, that 160GB drive is getting a little full.
look into mount options for SSD's (discard option) and "fstrim" for
maintenance. (read up on trimmimg - doing a manual trim before the drive
reaches full allocation (they delete files, but do not erase them
because erasing is time consuming so its an OS controlled operation) or
auto trimming (which can cause serious pauses at awkward times) can
prevent serious performance degradation as it has to erase before
writing. I am not sure of the current status but in the early days of
SSD's, this was serious concern.
BillK
BillK
