Cylinders -- how is that done? Because there is no tracks etc...
On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM Mike Pumford <mpumf...@mudcovered.org.uk> wrote: > > 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
