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Bruce: thanks. The link you provided is the most lucid discussion
I've read on the subject.<br>
<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><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.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Adding an SSD and a light Linux kept this notebook out of the
Goodwill bin.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/04/2016 09:29 PM, Bruce Marshall
via Linux-users wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/03/2016 11:00 AM, Leon
Goldstein via Linux-users wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:56D85FA7.2070302@earthlink.net" type="cite">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. <br>
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The next bit of confusion to me is "partition alignment" and/or
"partition optimization." How do you partition to obtain the
desired partition alignment? <br>
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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. <br>
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TIA <br>
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I googled for 'linux sdd optimization' and found this:<br>
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