is that because the drive is compressing the information? is there a way to turn this off? i hate mandatory compression as losing one bit in a compressed file tends to be a big deal compared to the same in an uncompressed file. -- Securely sent with Tutanota. Claim your encrypted mailbox today! https://tutanota.com 10. Aug 2017 10:06 by lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2017, 6:48 AM Robert Moskowitz <> rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> ---------------------------------------- >> > SSD's, in particular SD Cards (which you're not using, which is noted as > /dev/mmcblk0...) store you data as a probabilistic representation, and > through a lot of magic, the probability of retrieving your data correctly > from SSD is made very high. Almost deterministic. > > The magic is in the firmware, and so there's some possibility any given SSD > problem is related to a firmware bug. So it's worth comparing the firmware > reported by smartctl and what the manufacturer has, and then their > changelog. Most have a way to update firmware without Windows, but don't > have images that will boot an arm board, usually the "universal" updater is > based on FreeDOS funny enough. You'd need to stick the SSD in an x86 > computer to do this. Hilariously perverse, I did this with a Samsung 830 > SSD a while back, sticking it into a Macbook Pro, and burned that firmware > ISO onto a DVD-RW, and it booted that Mac (using the firmware's BIOS > compatibility support module) and updated the SSD's firmware without a > problem. > > > > Chris Murphy > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos