Re: A new Drive

[beaker%sdf.org@localhost (beaker)]

Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> Has anyone used NetBSD with a SSD ?
>
> Any specific size of name/type of SSD?
>
> Anything I should know  about using NetBSD programs
> such as fsck of newfs.

In case you were thinking about enabling TRIM[0], AFAIK it's still
considered experimental and also incompatable with the 'log' mount
option.  I recently replaced a 2.5" laptop PATA drive on an old 32bit
system with a 32GB mSATA inside an PATA adapter[1] and let the NetBSD
installer use it's defaults minus the swap partition[2] and it all
appears to work as expected, no a bit faster with less heat and no
noise (fanless system).

-B

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[0] IIRC, many SSD devices have their own internal
    wear-leveling so many this isn't a big deal?

[1] use a machine-made ribbon cable or you'll likely get
    weird data transfer errors.

[2] I did create a swap file since the system occasionally
    needs more memory for building fonts, etc.