SSD Configuration

[bmarsh at bmarsh.com]

> On Mar 9, 2016, at 7:49 PM, Leon Goldstein via Linux-users <linux-users at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> 
> Bruce: thanks.  The link you provided is the most lucid discussion I've read on the subject.
> 

<Blush>.   I've been running 2 SSD's now for about a year and I haven't done ant tuning.  Guess it is time for me to do that.



> I just installed Linux Mint 17.3 "Mate" 32-bit on an old Toshiba notebook I got from a friend.  He had "upgraded" to Win 10 and performance was glacially slow.  Onboard RAM is 2 GB.
> 
> I installed a PNY 120 GB SSD and loaded Mint 17.3 from a thumb drive.  "Mate" is a relatively light weight desktop and leaves plenty of free memory, so swap is minimal or even eliminated.  Performance with the puny Atom CPU is quite acceptable.  Boot takes about 25 seconds.
> 
> Adding an SSD and a light Linux kept this notebook out of the Goodwill bin.
> 
>> On 03/04/2016 09:29 PM, Bruce Marshall via Linux-users wrote:
>>> On 03/03/2016 11:00 AM, Leon Goldstein via Linux-users wrote:
>>> I know many of you have been using SSD's for many years so I'm hoping you guys can clear up some questions I have on how to use a SSD.  I have gleaned so far from various Linux fora a lot of confusing and sometimes contradictory advice on using trim.  Some say insert  "noatime,discard" in each partition line in /etc/fstab, others say to run trim as a chron job periodically, others say run trim at boot, while some say not to worry about it. 
>>> 
>>> The next bit of confusion to me is "partition alignment" and/or "partition optimization."  How do you partition to obtain the desired partition alignment? 
>>> 
>>> Bonus question:  is there a utility to trim Win XP?  I have Win XP on a computer and use it one time a year, when I install my tax software.  I'd like to clone the drive containing Win XP as well as several Linuces to a SSD, after clearing up the questions I asked above. 
>>> 
>>> TIA
>> 
>> 
>> I googled for 'linux sdd optimization' and found this:
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>> SSD: how to optimize your Solid State Drive for Linux Mint 17.3, Ubuntu 14.04 and Debian
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>> https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/ssd
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