On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 10:54 AM <tu...@posteo.de> wrote: > > On 04/05 10:33, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 10:13 AM <tu...@posteo.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 > > > > > > > Just my 2 cents... > > > > If the SSD cannot survive having data copied to it there's something > > seriously wrong with the drive. I don't think you should be overly worried > > about this but I do understand it's new technology so you want to be > > careful. Bravo for that. > > > > Possibly to ease your concerns a little bit use smartctl -a /dev/SSD and > > get to know your drive that way. You can most likely watch the drive temp > > as recorded by the drive. > > > > Best wishes, > > Mark > > Hi Mark, > > Yes, if a SSD could not survive writes, something is wrong with the > SSD. But that was not my point. > Copying about 100GB (roughly guessed) data in one go to the SSD is a > use case, which is not common. And therefore possibly not taken into > account by the company, which create that SSD. > SSDs can create noticeable heat (mine has a minimalistic heat > spreader therefore. Faster SSDs come with a substancial heatspreader). > > Smartctl will report problems when they are already there. > I want to prevent problems beforehand. > > So -- does copying about 100 GB creates so much heat in the sillicone > of the SSD, that it ages more than preferred? > > And if so, how can I prevent it by appluing other techniques to copy > the data? > See additional questions in my initial posting for that. > > Thanks a lot for any helpful advice in advance! > Cheers! > Meino >
If copying 100GB causes too much heat watching smartctl will show you before it gets too hot and you can stop it. 100GB of data as a copy is only 1 write cycle to any given data block on the drive. It's not going to matter how you get it there but something like rsync _might_ allow a restart in the middle of the copy if your rsync operation was to fail part way through. I don't personally think there's anything at all for you to worry about with this but I can see it's not my words that will get you there. I will only offer that I've used SSDs for 5-6 years now and only had the first one I purchased fail. I ran Gentoo with nightly code compiles for about 2 years before moving away from Gentoo and never had a problem with any of that. I think you're just going to have to hold your nose and jump in the pool. We welcome you. The water is fine! Mark
