SSD Drive

[fred0843]

Going to install a Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
Any thing I should know or do before installing ?

[dixonpete]

I didn't have any issues with my OCZ 60GB drive. I treated it like a standard HD install and it just worked.

[plankton172]

Going to install a Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
Any thing I should know or do before installing ?

Read up on some of the existing threads here. This forum already has lots of material regarding SSD install. But to summarize, the following are what I did on my Crucial M4 128 SSD:

1) Made sure it had the latest firmware
2) Used GParted to create partitions
3) Installed PCLinuxOS like a standard HDD -- used existing partitions created by GParted instead of having the installer do it
4) Edited /etc/fstab so that the "defaults" option is replaced with "discard,noatime" on all ext4 partitions (see below)

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# Entry for /dev/sda2 :
UUID=280a92f5-03fa-43f1-8f44-51d18c2d2cc8 / ext4 discard,noatime 1 1
# Entry for /dev/sda3 :
UUID=9bf79a4f-39cc-48cb-8294-7d023445b00e /home ext4 discard,noatime 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=f4953d4c-3a63-44ae-bcb6-4ab32a76f879 swap swap defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0

Hope this helps!

[fred0843]

Thanks Guys
I'm getting a OCZ 120GB Drive.Should be here by Weeks end.If I run into a problem I'll be back.

[jwt873]

I've been running an OCZ 120 Gig Sata 3 drive for almost a year now.  The PCLOS PAE kernel runs fine on it.  No hiccups at all. 

I plugged the thing in and my computer recognized it..  Then, I partitioned and installed the OS from the install utility on the PCLOS Live CD

You should see a very noticeable speed increase when your desktop loads and when applications launch.  (I'm sold on SSD's)