From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Jun 14 18:35:11 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76BE2AF2785 for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:35:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from smtp3.irishbroadband.ie (smtp3.irishbroadband.ie [62.231.32.5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3BB7F2DCC for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:35:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from [89.127.62.20] (helo=smtp.lan.sohara.org) by smtp3.irishbroadband.ie with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1bCsvV-0007l5-Ru; Tue, 14 Jun 2016 19:19:01 +0100 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.86_2 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1bCsvd-0003Tr-IX; Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:19:09 +0000 Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 19:19:00 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: Manish Jain Cc: User Questions Subject: Re: Anything special to do moving to SSD? Message-Id: <20160614191900.c70ccf60478738d0a8b0e44f@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.24.29; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.1) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:35:11 -0000 On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 17:43:05 +0000 Manish Jain wrote: > > Hi, > > I use FreeBSD 10.2 amd64 as my primary OS. > > I just purchased a Samsung EVO 500 GB Solid State disk, and shall be > migrating to it in the next few days. Just wanted to know whether I can > use it out-of-the-box, pretty much like an IDE/SATA hard disk, or is > there anything special/nice to do for SSD ? Just one thing, use the -t flag to newfs (along with whatever others you use) when you initialise the filesystems to enable TRIM support, other than that it's just a (fast) drive. > I presume I shall have to reinstall the OS over again. In case it is > possible to migrate 'in-place' (data copy), please let me know about that > too. Provided the existing filesystems will fit on the SSD a migrate in place is quite easy. I have done this quite recently based on the excellent write up here http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/ssd.html - don't treat it as a step-by-step adapt it to your setup (not hard). -- Steve O'Hara-Smith