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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Hardware encryption on Samsung SSD using Debian
I want to benefit from HW encryption on a Samsung SSD, meaning I want the SSD controller to handle decryption/encryption. I have 2 SSDs that i want to use, one with Windows, one with Debian. Steps I ...
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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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Linux mount fails but GRUB/Windows work
I have Thinkpad T470s with Team Group MP33 512GB (SM2263XT controller, firmware S1218A3) nvme ssd disk which stopped working in Linux after a system update around 2 weeks ago. The drive works fine in ...
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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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How to quickly wipe ext4 superblocks on a NVMe SSD? Secure erase?
Based on this question: How to erase/wipe all ext4 metadata, not just the filesystem signature 53 ef? My SSD is under warranty and I shall hand it over today, so excuse me for the hurry now. 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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Smartctl triggers: please convert it to SG_IO
When I do smartctl -i /dev/sda there is no output (except from the smartctl welcome message) and the kernel reports: smartctl is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO Searching ...
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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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Filesystem becomes read-only at random
Debian crashed on Laptop (Acer Aspire 3, about 4 years old, HDD replaced with ADATA SU650 240GB SSD) and started throwing console errors reading "failed to rotate /var/log/journal: read-only ...
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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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Does periodic trim work on SSD connected via USB 2.0?
It looks like my OS is set to periodically trim portable SSD drives, and TRIM is supported by my portable SSD. I connect this SSD via its usbc cable, attached to the usbc to usb3 adapter that came in ...
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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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Are portable USB-connected SSD automatically trimmed by Fedora?
After reading online I was under the impression that TRIM is not automatically (periodically) sent over to my USBconnected SSD by Fedora; but some discussions on this forum make me doubt this. Anyone ...
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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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