Where sdx is your drive (sda for example). To know about your device, try this command in a console with root rights : Optimizing partitions mean aligning them with the SSD clusters. Until now, partitioning tools were optimized to create partitions in a hard disk with disks, cylinders and heads. Most manufacturers provide tools to update their firmware and since this is a rapidly evolving technology, important updates may already be available for your new drive. With these rules in place, recent SSDs can last at least 5 years, even on a loaded server.Īfter purchasing and before using a new SSD it's worth checking that the firmware is up to date. You need to follow some rules so there will be fewer erasing/writing cycles.
SSD are very fast, silent, and are becoming cheaper so let's use them ! But you need to be careful, without some simple precautions, a SSD may die prematurely because on such a device, erasing/writing cycles can't be so numerous than on a traditional hard disk.
