On 07/15/2017 07:38 AM, Tim wrote:
On 15/7/2017 11:29 pm, Sherman Grunewagen wrote:
To be clear, my issue is with the new M.2 PCIe SSD "drive" itself which I ordered from amazon. It arrives today and I'm not certain it
will work. I've not been able to confirm it does or doesn't, and Dell support has been no help. (I've never used SSD before, let alone
PCIe SSD) It's the Samsung PM961 1TB card, by the way, if anyone
knows about this stuff.
I haven't used one either, but my friends do (one using Ubuntu, the other using Windows, neither with any special computing skills). My
understanding is that they're supposed to be a drop-in hard drive
replacement. Your OS should work with them in the same way.
If they need any special parameters I'm unaware of them, and I would
hope that if you do a fresh install onto one of them that the installer
would do what it needs to do.
If you install a SSD by itself, you're free to experiment on it. Your other, unplugged, drive won't be disturbed by such testing.
Thanks Tim. What "special parameters" might there be?
I've spent a few days installing F25 and all my special applications
(vmware, scilab, scribus 2.5.3, &c.) on an HDD on a different
laptop, learning F25 along the way (coming from F21).
Ideally, I'd like to format the SSD in my usual peculiar way
(a boot partition and a big volume group), pre-create the various
lv's w/in the VG, plug in my existing F25 external, and copy my
configured system into those fresh SSD partitions. Then I hand-craft
a grub2 from the previous one and write a bootloader onto the front of
the drive. This has always worked in the past. Can I expect it to work
with this PCIe SSD drive? I've no experience with SSD.
-Sherman
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