On 4/15/23 17:24, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 3:47 PM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com <mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com>> 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. > Dale, I have 500GB SSDs and 1TB M.2 drives in all of my machines. No machine boots from a spinning drive anyhmore. Never had any problems. The only thing I've done differently is the errors=remount=ro item below. Other than that if whatever OS you install sets up boot, and the machine boots, then it's just a drive in my experience Best wishes, Mark # / was on /dev/nvme1n1p3 during installation UUID=3fe6798f-653f-42e8-8e96-7ba0d490bfdf / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /boot/efi was on /dev/nvme0n1p1 during installation UUID=60DF-9F56 /boot/efi vfat umask=0077 0 1
My 5-year old small box running 500GB SSD INTEL SSDSC2BF48 Atom processor, it is ON 24/7 running Asterisk and hylafax. Never had a problem with it. But it is recommended to to run via cron fstrim: 30 18 * * 2 /sbin/fstrim -v /
