On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 15:27:37 -0600 "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
On 12/05/2019 11:30 AM, Dave Howorth wrote:
I've just bought my first SSD disks (Crucial MX500). I plan to install one on my desktop, replacing the DVD player which I'll move to USB, and use one with an RPi I have.
With the one on my desktop I plan to install 15.1, probably as a fresh install, and then make some links to connect it to my existing data on the rotating rust. That way I'll still hopefully be able to boot the existing 15.0 off the rust if necessary.
Does that sound like a reasonable plan?
I'm currently stuck at the first step (well actually the second, I've managed to put one of the SSD into a USB enclosure and connect to it) - namely how should I format it? My 15.0 system has BtrFS with lots of subvolumes, which is another reason to do a new install. Are there any reasons to prefer particular filesystems on SSDs, like with SD cards, or do I just treat it the same as HDD? What do people use?
A final question. Crucial have a Windows-only program for updating the firmware on the drive. Anybody know the Linux way?
Throw it in and drive it like you stole it. Your drive life 3-5 years is based on a rewrite of 2/3 of the entire drive capacity every 24 hours. Normal use, you will never come close to it (by a factor of years).
Enjoy the 10sec boot. (you will wonder how you ever lived with rust) Even old hardware wakes right up and behaves like it is turbocharged from a I/O standpoint. I've got an old 2nd gen i7 that boots 15.0 from powered off to full KDE3 desktop in just under 12 seconds.
(you have to adjust sysconfig/network/config WAIT_FOR_INTERFACES="1" for the full benefit, otherwise your boot will be twiddling its fingers for 29.85 seconds with the default 30 -- or 19.85 secs with a 20 default, I forget which it is)
Thanks. Boot performance is one thing that doesn't matter to me. This machine stays on 24 hrs a day, since it runs a TV recording program. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org