SSD: how to optimize your Solid State Drive for Linux Mint 18.1, Ubunt

[mhbell]

This is very important if you want you SSD Disk to last. Good info here. See link below.

Mel

https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/ssd

[sunrat]

SSDs are much more durable now than when these optimizing tips became popular. Only ones I bother with now are -

- AHCI (default on newer systems anyway)

- noatime (more because I've almost never wanted to know access times)

- run fstrim occasionally

[mhbell]

SSDs are much more durable now than when these optimizing tips became popular. Only ones I bother with now are -

- AHCI (default on newer systems anyway)

- noatime (more because I've almost never wanted to know access times)

- run fstrim occasionally

Yes they are more durable, but I do a lot of testing and installing Linux distro's and Windows, uninstalling, deleting and writing. So I used the above tips in the link to try and make my SSD last a while. I installed 8 Linux Distros in the past week doing a lot of testing with a lot of writes to the second SSD. That will be the one that wears out first, but it will probably outlast me. LoL

Mel

[sunrat]

That will be the one that wears out first, but it will probably outlast me. LoL

Mel

Haha, yeah. Same here.

I became less concerned after reading this (which is now two years old) - http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead

All of the drives surpassed their official endurance specifications by writing hundreds of terabytes without issue. Delivering on the manufacturer-guaranteed write tolerance wouldn't normally be cause for celebration, but the scale makes this achievement important. Most PC users, myself included, write no more than a few terabytes per year. Even 100TB is far more endurance than the typical consumer needs.

[raymac46]

Assuming it isn't a dud, one should expect a decade or more out of an SSD under normal use. I am at an age where I hesitate to buy green bananas, so that is OK by me.

Given the performance upgrade over a rotating drive it's worth it. You are well advised to have a backup whether you have an SSD or an HDD.

I don't think the chances of an SSD bricking itself at any point in time are any higher than a platter crash on an HDD and both are low. Speccy shows my 5 year old HDD and month old SSD to be in good shape.

[mhbell]

I agree with both you Raymac and Sunrat I am 78 years old.

Mel