What NOT to put on an SSD?

I bought an SSD and I am going to set up my desktop system with a completely fresh Linux installation.

Q&AAugust 10, 2022

How to know if a disk is an SSD or an HDD

I want to know whether a disk is a solid-state drive or hard disk.

Q&AAugust 9, 2022

Linux, SSD and swap

This article suggests not to create a swap space on an SSD drive in order to reduce its wear. On the other hand, it suggested here that swap space positively affects performance.

Q&AAugust 9, 2022

SSD: how often should I do fstrim?

There are different sources and different practices are suggested. I found the following proposals how often one should run fstrim.

Q&AAugust 9, 2022

File system for an SSD drive

I always thought that traditional file systems, are geared and optimized for non-ssd drive, where, for instance, data locality is important, and fragmentation is problematic.

Q&AAugust 6, 2022

Can I get SSD rw performance while keeing data security if I combine SSD & HDD in btrfs RAID1

I have 2 storage devices; classical slow HDD (750GB, /dev/sda) and faster SSD (128GB, /dev/sdb). Currently I have installed Ubuntu & Mint on same btrfs partition on SSD (/dev/sdb5). My btrfs pool consists of /dev/sdb5.