Re: [gentoo-user] Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

[thelma@sys-concept.com]

On 4/15/23 17:24, Mark Knecht wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 3:47 PM Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com <mailto:rdalek1967@gmail.com>> wrote:
>  >
>  > Howdy,
>  >
>  > I finally broke down and bought a SSD.  It's a Samsung V-Nand 870 EVO
>  > 500GB.  My current OS sits on a 160GB drive so should be plenty.  I plan
>  > to even add a boot image for the Gentoo LiveGUI thingy, maybe Knoppix or
>  > something plus my usual OS.  By the way, caught one for sale for
>  > $40.00.  It has a production date of 5/2021.
>  >
>  > My question is this.  Do I need anything special in the kernel or
>  > special fstab options for this thing?  I know at one point there was
>  > folks having problems with certain settings.  I did some googling and it
>  > seems to be worked out but I want to be sure I don't blow this thing up
>  > or something.
>  >
>  > Anything else that makes these special?  Any tips or tricks?
>  >
>  > Dale
>  >
>  > :-)  :-)
>  >
>  > P. S.  I'm hoping this will make my system a little more responsive.
>  > Maybe.  Either way, that 160GB drive is getting a little full.
>  >
> 
> Dale,
>     I have 500GB SSDs and 1TB M.2 drives in all of my machines. No
> machine boots from a spinning drive anyhmore. Never had any
> problems.
> 
>     The only thing I've done differently is the errors=remount=ro item
> below. Other than that if whatever OS you install sets up boot, and
> the machine boots, then it's just a drive in my experience
> 
> Best wishes,
> Mark
> 
> # / was on /dev/nvme1n1p3 during installation
> UUID=3fe6798f-653f-42e8-8e96-7ba0d490bfdf /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
> # /boot/efi was on /dev/nvme0n1p1 during installation
> UUID=60DF-9F56  /boot/efi       vfat    umask=0077      0       1

My 5-year old small box running 500GB SSD INTEL SSDSC2BF48 Atom processor, it is ON 24/7 running Asterisk and hylafax.
Never had a problem with it.
But it is recommended to to run via cron fstrim:
30 18 * * 2  /sbin/fstrim -v /