Nice, Thanks a lot guys. My first job for tomorrow will be to install Arch on my laptop. can you explain me a little detail on that rewrite stuff?, i am slightly confused On Thu, 23 May 2019 at 01:41, David C. Rankin < drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/22/2019 10:27 AM, Ram Kumar via arch-general wrote: > > I bought a new laptop that has NVMe ssd on it. I would like to install > Arch > > on that, is there any precautions that i need to take? Also i would like > to > > get feedback from Archers who already tried this. > > Drive it like you stole it! > > No special precautions needed for SSD anymore. The old write-limitations > have > all but disappeared. Samsungs 3/5 year warranties presume a 60% daily > rewrite > of the drive (so for a 1T drive, that's 600GB of daily writes assumed) > > Like 11 sec boots from OFF to Full Desktop? They are pretty amazing > compared > to platter. Have large builds (like rebuilding php or KDE). Compile times > now > a fraction of what they were with platter drives. > > See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Solid_state_drive for TRIM or > fstrim > configs/consideration. > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. >
