Anyone using an SSD with Linux?

[Moontrash]

I was gonna try finding a smallish SSD and play around with a Linux Distro but I wanted the TRIM function to be a part of that. From reading around, it's not possible on some distros and on others it is, but it's pretty difficult to get enabled. Does anyone use Linux with an SSD and have TRIM enabled? If so how difficult to do is it and how to do it period?

[jagabo]

http://askubuntu.com/questions/18903/how-to-enable-trim

[Moontrash]

thanks....seems like a heckuva lot effort to enable it...i've looked at other distros and it's almost he same process...wish they made it simpler...looking at those directions is almost like physics to me lol

[ofbarea]

Thy this link:
http://www.howtogeek.com/62761/how-to-tweak-your-ssd-in-ubuntu-for-better-performance/

Same commands, but I think the examples are better.

[jman98]

Moontrash - If you want to use Linux, you can't be scared of doing this kind of work. It comes with the territory.

Here's another link that shows more or less the same stuff as above with perhaps some better explanations.
http://www.ab9il.net/linux/solid-state-drives1.html
Note that I do NOT recommend sending /var/spool and /var/log to tmpfs as in the instructions on this site. If you have problems, having those available on the disk drive to examine can be extremely helpful. I suppose for a home user you might consider it, but it's not anything I'd recommend for a business installation.

[Moontrash]

thanks for the links....i have some reading to do

i just assumed by now they would have made it easier to do some basic things on Linux by now. It seems Linux just wants to remain a hobbyist/pc techy OS and not super easy to use like Windows. I hope this changes. Less commandline stuff and more GUI ways of doing things would make me a happy camper

[jman98]

I wouldn't make any assumptions based on how SSDs are handled. Even under Windows and OSX you still really should tweak some things if you are using an SSD rather than just plug it in and go.

You do need to understand, even if you do not agree with it, that Linux is coming from a background where
GUI = bad
command line = good
I make my living supporting Linux servers and there are just times when doing it on the command line is easier and better than a GUI. Each has their place.

In my opinion Ubuntu is probably as GUI friendly as any Linux distribution out there so you might check it out if you haven't already. Other pro-Linux people so share your concerns exactly and the situation gets better all the time towards getting it closer to what you ask for.

[Moontrash]

it's good to know others share my thoughts on GUI stuff. I thought I was one of a rare few. I think the deal with commandline is having to always remember what they are and having to save them somewhere to txt file. All those strings of code seems like an awful lot to do where a GUI is just click and go.

I use an SSD here with Windows 7 and I have done all the necessary tweaks for performance and they work great. No issues. I did enable TRIM with a the DOS line "fsutil". What's good to know is that there's also small apps that can set TRIM for you so no DOS needed.

Windows really spoiled us on leaving DOS/Commandline behind. I honestly believe more would merge over to a Linux Distro if it were easier to use in terms of modifications....i.e...GUI's...Ubuntu I soured on a ways back with that report about them logging/reporting back to them waht you do or where you surf so I looked into "Arch Linux" but it's a headache it seems to even attempt TRIM on it so I decided...why not post in here and see if someone knew of an easier way