On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 10:13 AM <tu...@posteo.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > currentlu I am preparing a new Gentoo Linux by compiling all > the application I had on my old system. > > Due to delivery problems (corona) my SSD was delivered today > (or yesterday...it depends...;) . > > When the whole compilation has finished and the system boots it > needs to be transfered to the SSD. > > The SSD has a heat spreader...so it gets hot, when used. > > Is it wise to copy the whole root system to the SSD in one go > in respect to a not so healthy heat increase? > > And if not...how can I copy the root system in portions > to the SSD and do not miss anything? > > Are there SDD-friendly and SSD-unfriendlu methods of copying > greater chunks of data to a SSD (rsync, tar-pipe, cp....)? > What is recommended here? > > Thanks a lot for any help for a SSD newbie in advance! > > Cheers! And stay heathy! > Meino >
Just my 2 cents... If the SSD cannot survive having data copied to it there's something seriously wrong with the drive. I don't think you should be overly worried about this but I do understand it's new technology so you want to be careful. Bravo for that. Possibly to ease your concerns a little bit use smartctl -a /dev/SSD and get to know your drive that way. You can most likely watch the drive temp as recorded by the drive. Best wishes, Mark
