On 18/02/2025 22:36, Todd Gruhn wrote:
Has anyone used NetBSD with a SSD ?
Any specific size of name/type of SSD?
Its all pretty standardized so pretty much anything should work. I've
used quite a variety of different SSD devices both SATA and NVME and
never had any issues. Most of mine were Samsung devices but I've also
used Crucial ones as well. Not much point recommending a specific model
as the underlying hardware can change a lot over the production lifetime.
Only thing to think about is partition alignment. Whilst the devices all
report 512 byte sectors for maximum compatibility the actual underlying
flash block size can be larger (same as some larger conventional disks).
Assuming a relatively recent NetBSD the standard partitioning tools do
the right thing and align things on 2k sector boundaries which seems to
cover most devices.
You might also want to play around with the FFS block and fragment sizes
so that they are appropriate although I've never done so and haven't
seen any performance oddities.
Mike
