Re: Slightly OT: SSD question

2015-06-29 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 20:16:58 +0300 Selim T. Erdoğan se...@alumni.cs.utexas.edu wrote: On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 02:40:31PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: I know this isn't Debian-specific, but I hope someone can give me some useful information here anyway, or point me to a better place to ask.

Re: Slightly OT: SSD question

2015-06-28 Thread Selim T . Erdoğan
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 02:40:31PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: I know this isn't Debian-specific, but I hope someone can give me some useful information here anyway, or point me to a better place to ask. My SSD is dead, and I need a new one. Samsung seems to be a generally recommended brand,

Re: Slightly OT: SSD question

2015-06-26 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 02:40:31PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: I know this isn't Debian-specific, but I hope someone can give me some useful information here anyway, or point me to a better place to ask. My SSD is dead, and I need a new one. Samsung seems to be a generally recommended brand,

Re: Slightly OT: SSD question

2015-06-26 Thread The Wanderer
On 06/26/2015 at 08:40 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: I know this isn't Debian-specific, but I hope someone can give me some useful information here anyway, or point me to a better place to ask. My SSD is dead, and I need a new one. Samsung seems to be a generally recommended brand, but according

Re: Slightly OT: SSD question

2015-06-26 Thread Jochen Spieker
Petter Adsen: the 850 EVO does not support queued TRIM. Is that a problem for everyday desktop use? No. It only means that TRIM commands must not be queued by the drive but executed instantly (after clearing the existing commands in the queue, I guess). For desktop use this means that a

Slightly OT: SSD question

2015-06-26 Thread Petter Adsen
I know this isn't Debian-specific, but I hope someone can give me some useful information here anyway, or point me to a better place to ask. My SSD is dead, and I need a new one. Samsung seems to be a generally recommended brand, but according to