SSD with ubuntu -- Developer guidance please

[Nicholas Abbott]

I am interested in getting feedback on this from actual ubuntu developers about what they recommend.. Hopefully my 3 questions can be succinctly answered without much trouble?

> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:56:36 -0400
> From: mgolden at mitchgolden.com
> To: niabbott at live.com
> Subject: Re: SSD with ubuntu -- Developer guidance please
> 
> I am sure you will get some people telling you not to send this sort of 
> message to the developers list, as there is a separate users list for such 
> discussions.
> 
> I have a System 76 laptop with an Intel SSD drive, and you can see exactly 
> what I do to set it up here:
> 
> http://mitchgolden.com/computers/kubuntu-11.10.txt
> 
> I did choose to use the discard option and the noatime option as well. 
> The latter is to reduce the number of writes to the SSD and presumably 
> improve its life.  I didn't test it without discard to see if performance 
> improved.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
>    - Mitch
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, Nicholas Abbott wrote:
> 
> > Hi everyone. My name is Nicholas.
> >
> > I have a new computer that has an Intel SSD. I have some questions about using Ubuntu with an SSD that I hope ubuntu developers can answer for me. I've researched online but do not know how best to proceed as there seems to be differing advice. I see it mentioned online that I should mount with DISCARD. But an article from OpenSUSE says DISCARD is not good to use.
> > http://opensuse.14.n6.nabble.com/SSD-detection-when-creating-first-time-fstab-td3313048.html
> >
> > Here are my questions
> > 1.) are there any issues I should be aware of if using ubuntu on an SSD? Is ubuntu primarily intended to be used on HDD and not recommended for SSD?
> >
> > 2.) do you recommend TRIM be used for SSD with ubuntu?
> >
> > 3.) If you do recommend TRIM be used, how should TRIM be setup? Automatic wiping, or manual wiping? FITRIM, FSTRIM, or DISCARD?
> >
> > I really don't understand any of this in depth, so I'm very thankful for any direction/guidance you can provide.
> >
> > Thank you so much,
> > Nicholas
> >
> >
> > By the way, I explored wiki.ubuntu.com but couldn't find info on SSDs I was looking for.
> >
> >
> >
 		 	   		  
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