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New SSD

#1 Post by quinton77 »

Well, I finally broke down and bought an SSD for my aging 32 bit machine. Got a Samsung 850 EVO 250 GB drive. I decided that since my MB only has Sata II, buying the faster 850 PRO wasn't going to buy me much. So, I installed Jessie and have spent much of the day installing software, transferring passwords and bookmarks, etc etc etc. I had thought about using Grsync to restore my /home backup (from Wheezy) to the new Jessie install and then thought, MAYBE BETTER NOT. Might be some gotcha there. Still have the Wheezy install as a backup.

The SSD is perceptibly faster. Boot time is probably about 50%, or less, then the HDD. Of course the SSD and HDD are not the same size but if I am correct, the smaller the SSD the less fast they are (generally speaking). Anyhow, programs launch a lot faster and I am happy, so far, with the install. Don't really care for the Gnome Classic implementation (really don't like the new Gnome at all) so I am running LXDE.

All in all a good day. Stuff yet to do: Install NUT and set up the UPS, install the printer drivers (older printer), and boogie !

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Re: New SSD

#2 Post by 4D696B65 »

congratulations on the new ssd. I'm sure you will love it. It also will run cooler and quieter. :D

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Re: New SSD

#3 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

quinton77 wrote:Samsung 850 EVO 250 GB drive
I have one of those, I recently swapped out the crappy spinning rust drive from the family laptop and replaced it with that and I am now in Mrs. HoaS' good books :)
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Re: New SSD

#4 Post by esp7 »

Please take the time to correctly configure SSD trim on your machine or your performance will go down over time: https://wiki.debian.org/SSDOptimization

Any reason why you keep running debian wheezy on a non server machine? Debian Stretch and soon Buster will run as smooth and better support SSD trim
ThinkPad X220: i5-2520M CPU 2.5GHz - 8GB RAM 1333 MHz - SSD 860 EVO 250GB - Debian - ME_cleaned
ThinkPad X230: i5-3320M CPU 3.3GHz - 8GB RAM 1600 MHz - SSD 860 EVO 500GB - Debian - ME_cleaned

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Re: New SSD

#5 Post by sunrat »

esp7 wrote:Please take the time to correctly configure SSD trim on your machine or your performance will go down over time: https://wiki.debian.org/SSDOptimization
None of that matters much with recent model SSDs.
Any reason why you keep running debian wheezy on a non server machine? Debian Stretch and soon Buster will run as smooth and better support SSD trim
OP said they are running Jessie.
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