From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Jun 14 18:35:19 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 5F455AF279D for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:35:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dpchrist@holgerdanske.com) Received: from holgerdanske.com (holgerdanske.com [IPv6:2001:470:0:19b::b869:801b]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3ABC52E08 for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:35:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dpchrist@holgerdanske.com) Received: from ::ffff:99.100.19.101 ([99.100.19.101]) by holgerdanske.com for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2016 11:35:15 -0700 Subject: Re: Anything special to do moving to SSD? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: From: David Christensen Message-ID: <57604E69.5090805@holgerdanske.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 11:35:21 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/38.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed 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 18:35:19 -0000 On 06/14/2016 10:43 AM, Manish Jain wrote: > 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 ? > > 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. What kind of machine -- laptop, desktop, server? What do you use the machine for? What disk(s) does it already heave? David