SSD drives configuration

sevendogsbsd · 02-20-2020, 11:48 AM

It is quite funny: drives get larger and larger but I personally don't need the storage, yet I have it. I have a 4TB NAS for backups and music, and in my main machine, a 512GB /home SSD and a separate 256GB SSD for /. Both are overkill, especially the one for /, but prices are cheap so why not.

The NAS is at 12% capacity and both /home and / are at I think, single digit usage. The only reason I would buy another SSD is to do RAID using ZFS for my user's /home but I don't really need that either.

273 · 02-20-2020, 12:59 PM

Along the lines of the above post. Backup what you need, multiples times, regularly, test it, put it somewhere safe.
"Everything dies...".
When to trim does seem a little bit of a neglected issue (still find myself running it manually) but things like specifying mount parameters are now irrelevant (far as i know "noatime" is no longer needed due to the kernel defaulting to "relatime" [approved by Mt Torvalds], for example)?

dave67 · 02-24-2020, 07:01 PM

I read a thread on ubuntu fourm about ssd settings. It seem trim is active when an ssd is installed and is trimmed weekly. Since ubuntu 14.04.

Though the still have the disgard in the fstab which is not necessary.