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tuxic@××××××.de wrote: |
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> On 04/05 10:33, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 10:13 AM <tuxic@××××××.de> wrote: |
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>>> Hi, |
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>>> currentlu I am preparing a new Gentoo Linux by compiling all |
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>>> the application I had on my old system. |
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>>> Due to delivery problems (corona) my SSD was delivered today |
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>>> (or yesterday...it depends...;) . |
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>>> When the whole compilation has finished and the system boots it |
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>>> needs to be transfered to the SSD. |
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>>> |
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>>> The SSD has a heat spreader...so it gets hot, when used. |
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>>> |
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>>> Is it wise to copy the whole root system to the SSD in one go |
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>>> in respect to a not so healthy heat increase? |
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>>> |
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>>> And if not...how can I copy the root system in portions |
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>>> to the SSD and do not miss anything? |
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>>> |
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>>> Are there SDD-friendly and SSD-unfriendlu methods of copying |
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>>> greater chunks of data to a SSD (rsync, tar-pipe, cp....)? |
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>>> What is recommended here? |
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>>> Thanks a lot for any help for a SSD newbie in advance! |
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>>> Cheers! And stay heathy! |
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>>> Meino |
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>>> |
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>> Just my 2 cents... |
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>> If the SSD cannot survive having data copied to it there's something |
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>> seriously wrong with the drive. I don't think you should be overly worried |
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>> about this but I do understand it's new technology so you want to be |
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>> careful. Bravo for that. |
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>> Possibly to ease your concerns a little bit use smartctl -a /dev/SSD and |
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>> get to know your drive that way. You can most likely watch the drive temp |
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>> as recorded by the drive. |
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>> Best wishes, |
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>> Mark |
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> Hi Mark, |
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> Yes, if a SSD could not survive writes, something is wrong with the |
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> SSD. But that was not my point. |
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> Copying about 100GB (roughly guessed) data in one go to the SSD is a |
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> use case, which is not common. And therefore possibly not taken into |
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> account by the company, which create that SSD. |
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> SSDs can create noticeable heat (mine has a minimalistic heat |
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> spreader therefore. Faster SSDs come with a substancial heatspreader). |
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> Smartctl will report problems when they are already there. |
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> I want to prevent problems beforehand. |
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> So -- does copying about 100 GB creates so much heat in the sillicone |
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> of the SSD, that it ages more than preferred? |
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> And if so, how can I prevent it by appluing other techniques to copy |
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> the data? |
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> See additional questions in my initial posting for that. |
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> Thanks a lot for any helpful advice in advance! |
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> Cheers! |
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> Meino |
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If you are using rsync or cp -u you could start the copy then stop at it |
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certain points to let the SSD cool, then start it again. It will |
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basically pick up where it left off. You could monitor the temps while |
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doing that. I use smartctrl and then grep temp on the end so I only get |
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the temp readings. Something similar to this might help: |
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smartctl -a /dev/sdd | grep Temp |
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Another option, temporarily place a fan close to the drive to help cool |
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it. Once you get everything copied, remove the fan and carry on. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |