Re: [opensuse] SSD Upgrade - a variation

On 2016-11-05 17:04, Greg Freemyer wrote:

On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On 2016-11-03 00:18, John Andersen wrote:

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Thinking of replacing my Drive with a SSD. Probably happen about the time Leap 42.2 comes out.

An addition to the question:

What about doing the same on a laptop which double boots with Windows? Is it possible to migrate both Windows and Linux to an SSD from rotating rust? Anybody has done it? Caveats, known issues, suspicions, ideas?

No issues jump out. I've migrated at least 3 windows laptops from rotating to SSD.

At least one of the laptops was a dual boot PC

Windows often complains if you renew the hard disk thinking that one is using a pirated copy. If the original disk is dd-ed to the new, Windows is happy. But I've never tried with SSD.

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I'm toying with the idea of doing it, but that is one of the things that stops me. Another is the "improved" price. Another is the suspicion that an SSD can die of age suddenly, being impossible to recover anything.

I don't know what your "improved" price comment means.

Oh, a bit of humour: they are more expensive :-))

On my day-to-day laptop, I replaced the boot rotating HDD with a SSD, then I removed the optical drive (OD) and used a HDD converter ($20) that fits the OD bay mechanical space to let me put in a 2TB rotating drive.

Oh.

I have my dual boot OS setup on the SSD, but I have VMs and other large data on the HDD.

I don't store large things on the laptop. No VMs there. So a 500GB unit should suffice. Perhaps more if the price is right. But an extra hard disk... dunno.

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My idea would be to dd the old disk to the new one. I have done this once on that same laptop using rotating disks of the same model. One problem might be sector size: old is 512B, new might be 4KiB.

SSDs don't have the same issues with 4KB that HDDs do. For an SSD, the native block is a EB, and they are way bigger than 4KB. But the SSD hides that so well, I don't think there is even a way for Linux / Windows to leverage knowledge about EBs.

Well, as long as the software can think that it is 512 bytes per sector Windows will be happy about fixed position files. And the booter too. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)