SSD Install

[vikrantalmelkar]

Hi All,

I have a Acer Aspire E15-512-C0GA laptop

I am changing the HDD to an 256GB SSD.

is there anything special that I need to do while installing ubuntu 18.04?

thank very much and appreciate all your support

Vik

[CatKiller]

The defaults are fine for SSDs now.

[ubname]

Someone say that it is better to add "noatime" in fstab,
but I do not have the knowledge to say it is true, it will however prevents many writes,
maybe some more experienced SSD user can say some more.

[oldfred]

SSD life is now considered comparable to HDD life. But that can be anywhere from very short to very long.
http://hothardware.com/news/google-d...than-mlc-flash
SSD life test 2015 final
http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead
hard drive life
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-...s-for-q1-2018/

I do make a few changes, but started with a small SSD in 2011 where many more settings were suggested and still do some of those, whether really needed or not.

I add noatime to fstab mounts.
I do leave some space not used, newer drives may be able to manage that.
I run my own trim daily, but then any recovery of data is lost. I use SSD as boot drive and can reinstall Ubuntu and have good backups. Data is on HDD.
I have lots of RAM (8 on one system and 16 on other), so mount /tmp into RAM with fstab. (can do whether SSD or HDD).
And with lots of RAM, I never use swap, so all the discussion of where swap partition should be is moot. But now Ubuntu uses a swap file.

https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/ssd
Do SSD need customization?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1981478
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Solid_State_Drives
https://wiki.debian.org/SSDOptimization
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2003022