On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 10:13 AM <tuxic@posteo.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> currentlu I am preparing a new Gentoo Linux by compiling all
> the application I had on my old system.
>
> Due to delivery problems (corona) my SSD was delivered today
> (or yesterday...it depends...;) .
>
> When the whole compilation has finished and the system boots it
> needs to be transfered to the SSD.
>
> The SSD has a heat spreader...so it gets hot, when used.
>
> Is it wise to copy the whole root system to the SSD in one go
> in respect to a not so healthy heat increase?
>
> And if not...how can I copy the root system in portions
> to the SSD and do not miss anything?
>
> Are there SDD-friendly and SSD-unfriendlu methods of copying
> greater chunks of data to a SSD (rsync, tar-pipe, cp....)?
> What is recommended here?
>
> Thanks a lot for any help for a SSD newbie in advance!
>
> Cheers! And stay heathy!
> Meino
>

Just my 2 cents...

If the SSD cannot survive having data copied to it there's something
seriously wrong with the drive. I don't think you should be overly worried
about this but I do understand it's new technology so you want to be
careful. Bravo for that.

Possibly to ease your concerns a little bit use smartctl -a /dev/SSD and
get to know your drive that way. You can most likely watch the drive temp
as recorded by the drive.

Best wishes,
Mark