On Thu, 5 Aug 2021, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Anno domini 2021 Thu, 05 Aug 16:36:10 +0000
dep scripsit:
Hi, everybody!
I'm giving some thought to putting an SSD in my desktop machine. The
relatively small ones, ~500gb, have gotten pretty cheap, and they seem to
be fairly reliable (though I can't say I utterly trust them, though
traditional HDs aren't perfect in this regard, either). It seems that if
properly employed, one could speed up my system considerably.
But I thought I'd ask here before pushing the buy button.
So . . . has anyone here used an SSD in a desktop machine? If so, what did
you put on it?
I have 20tb of storage on the machine, most of it big photo files, and I
expect to keep all of it. Absent a compelling reason to the contrary, I'd
keep ~/ on a conventional hard drive as well. My initial idea is putting
the / partition and swap partitions on the thing, with everything home and
below staying put.
An additional consideration is my idea of keeping a fully current install
where it is now, though not using it unless the SSD blows up. Is this
reasonably easy to do, or would it be a giant pita?
Anyone here have any experience doing this kind of thing?
I have a Samsung 870 QVO 1TB - simply works. I tried two SanDisk SSD
Plus, both had bad sectors. As a data graveyard I'd not use SSDs. My old
HDDs (2000, 2005 and 2010) still are in perfect shape. Now they serve as
my data graveyard on FreeBSD+ZFS. Backups go to BD :)
I installed a Samsung 870 EVO 1TB in a laptop with a AMD chipset. I
learned that Samsung EVO SSDs and AMD chipsets do not play well together.
I had to disable NCQ in order to get rid of error messages that indicated
the potential for data loss. Samsung (EVO) + Intel chipsets should be fine
though. More reading here:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201693
Gianluca
Nik
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