Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 19:19:00 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Anything special to do moving to SSD? Message-ID: <20160614191900.c70ccf60478738d0a8b0e44f@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <VI1PR02MB097476EA28325B53239D0E05F6540@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> References: <VI1PR02MB097476EA28325B53239D0E05F6540@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com>
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On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 17:43:05 +0000 Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> 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 <steve@sohara.org>
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