On 04/05 08:41, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On 5 April 2020 19:12:45 CEST, 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 > > 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
