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Solid State Drive- Linux

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<big><big><big>The Swappiness Page</big></big></big>On some newer versions of mint they are mounting by UUID.  For UUID Mounted Partitions see this example: # / was on /dev/sda2 during installation UUID=e0b539aa-3f95-4455-92eb-e2c6326ec30a /              ext4    noatime,errors=remount-ro 0  1update 2023 in regards to noatime:  noatime doesn't make a big difference with modern SSDs however it does no harm to add this parameter.      Note: some sources say that 25 is a recommended setting for modern SSDs.  I am going to start using 10. vm.swappiness=10Next, lets talk about TRIM:*What is trim?*increase trim schedule*manually execute trim (what I do)(1) TRIM/UNMAP is supported for SSDs, for dataset management and to improve SMR performance over time. One of the shingled write benefits is that all physical sectors are written sequentially in a direction radially and are only rewritten after a wrap-around. Rewriting a previously written LBA (Logical Block Addressing) will cause the previous write to be marked invalid and the LBA will be written to the next sequential physical sector. The TRIM/UNMAP enables the OS to inform the drive which blocks are no longer considered to be in use and can be reclaimed internally by the HDD to ensure that later write operations perform at full speed.  (2) It is often suggested to change weekly trim cleaning to daily for SSDs.  I don't think it is worth the hassle.(3) If you're a proactive sort of guy that feels he must do every little thing to increase performance, you can manually execute trim cleaning from the CLI.  Execute TRIM on all mounted partitions that support it: sudo fstrim -avWarning: on a few SSD models executing a manual fstrim command when there's high disk activity (I/O activity), might cause problems.Web BrowsersChrome and Firefox have features that cause a lot of i/o and specifically write activity to your SSD.  Look up how to disable sessionstore on Firefox and with Chrome disable cookie site data reloading.  DefragDO NOT defrag.  This is more of a Microsoft Windows thing than a linux thing but is worth mentioning here especially if you dual book with a M$ partition.
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