Sunday, November 03, 2019

Re: OpenBSD and solid state disks

On 2019-11-02, Raymond, David <david.raymond@nmt.edu> wrote:
> I recently installed OpenBSD on a Lenovo X1 Carbon with a solid state
> drive and it works great.
>
> My question is whether OpenBSD addresses the special characteristics
> of solid state drives, especially those having to do with longevity
> and reliability. I can't find anything written on this. Linux has
> certain means for addressing this issue, such as fstrim as well as
> various kernel options. Is there anything I have missed with OpenBSD
> on this subject?
>
> Dave Raymond
>

Trim doesn't seem hugely necessary with modern SSDs. We do regular bulk
port builds on SSD machines (often 4+ times a week for i386/amd64)
without anything special and they seem to cope ok.

I think https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/9h231o/comment/e6bw9ig
is valid.

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