Questions tagged [ssd]
A no-moving-parts all-electronic storage device which replaces a spinning hard disk drive.
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SSD benchmarking with fio - write cache confusion
I am looking at some SSDs and try to benchmark them. In particular, I wanted to see if I can reproduce the numbers in the datasheet. Currently I am looking at a HUSSL4040BSS600 SSD which is SAS. With ...
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Replacing a 500GB SSD LUKS/LVM drive in place with 1TB SSD
I have a ThinkPad T520 running Fedora with a single 500GB SSD drive. The drive has two partitions, a small boot partition and the rest devoted to a a single LUKS one. The LUKS partition is managed ...
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Slow Write Speed on Internal/External HDD/SSD on Debian 13 With GNOME
I've recently migrated from Ubuntu 24.04 to Debian 13 with GNOME (thought it doesn't have that much issues but alas). I've read tons of information trying to find a solution or an answer (some say it'...
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Nuking SSDs in Linux
I have two SSDs in my system, and when I tried to make one drive linux, it broke windows and is unrecoverable via an installation media. To make it easier (since I have nothing that I need on either), ...
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How can I see how much space was freed by trim on an SSD?
In my current setup, I have three different filesystems on two different SSDs: A FAT partition and a BTRFS partition on one drive, and ext4 on a second drive. When running fstrim, the output is ...
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U.2 SSD drive not detected. Drive's or adapter's fault?
I'm connecting a U.2 SSD drive to my computer with a U.2 USB enclosure. The drive was never tested by me, and it's a classic ex-enterprise drive, the ones removed from a server and sold second-hand, ...
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Weird failure and "Smartctl open device: /dev/nvme0 failed: Resource temporarily unavailable"
in WIN11 I have the issue that my screen is frozen but mouse can move. Used my Debian boot stick to check if it is hardware that is failing. Memory seems to be OK but the SSD is giving me some ...
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Wear level and total bytes written in SATA SSD
On a Samsung SATA SSD, i.e. non NVMe disk, the following are the SmartCtl values that are obtained by running the command sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda, SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 1 ...
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