On Thursday 05 August 2021 01:30:29 pm Gianluca Interlandi wrote: > 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 > Wow. Thanks Gianluca You just saved me from a big mistake. Kate ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
