Re: [gentoo-user] Copying root to SSD in one go...a good idea...or?

On 04/05 08:41, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On 5 April 2020 19:12:45 CEST, tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >currentlu I am preparing a new Gentoo Linux by compiling all
> >the application I had on my old system.
> >
> >Due to delivery problems (corona) my SSD was delivered today
> >(or yesterday...it depends...;) .
> >
> >When the whole compilation has finished and the system boots it
> >needs to be transfered to the SSD.
> >
> >The SSD has a heat spreader...so it gets hot, when used.
> >
> >Is it wise to copy the whole root system to the SSD in one go
> >in respect to a not so healthy heat increase?
> >
> >And if not...how can I copy the root system in portions
> >to the SSD and do not miss anything?
> >
> >Are there SDD-friendly and SSD-unfriendlu methods of copying
> >greater chunks of data to a SSD (rsync, tar-pipe, cp....)?
> >What is recommended here?
> >
> >Thanks a lot for any help for a SSD newbie in advance!
> >
> >Cheers! And stay heathy!
> >Meino
>
> I have been using SSDs for over 7 years now and never worried about them overheating.
> In my opinion, if the drive can't handle a copy operation of 20GB (how much bigger is your root partition?) it should be replaced from day one.
>
> I only keep the portage compile dir and browser caches in RAM, the rest stays on the SSD. And as I mentioned in a previous thread about SSDs, I only had one failure after 6.5 years. (That drive also had SWAP on it and I didn't offload the browser caches yet on that one).
>
> Like Mark said, it is good to keep an eye on it, but if you use decent brand SSDs (Samsung and Intel), you should be able to expect 5+ years of heavy usage.
>
> --
> Joost
> --
> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>


Hi,

I found a minute ago:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=2020-Linux-Kernel-SATA-Temps

Cheers!
Meino