SSD support question

[MR ZenWiz]

On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 2:32 PM rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
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> If other folks have a different favorite SSD, please let me know why you
> like it...
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I've been using an SSD as my root drive (contains / but /home and
everything else is on other disks - all HDDs so far) for at least 2
years, no problems I've seen at all.  Speedy reliable and big enough
to handle the job.  It's an Inland Professional (MicroCenter generic
brand) 240GB SSD.  It was cheap, and it performs extremely well.  With
Xubuntu 18.04, it would boot from cold to login screen in about 16
seconds and another 15 to full login screen.  Since 20.04, that first
interval from boot to login has increased due to the mass of other
stuff 20.04 does during the boot, but only to about 30 seconds.  I
haven't timed it recently...

I have a 1TB Inland Pro SSD in one of my laptops and it boots from
cold to login in about 20 seconds.

My LG laptop, which came with a 512GB Samsung NVMe SSD, amazes me.  It
boots Win10 in 15 seconds flat (I've never seen anything boot Windows
of any version that fast, not even my VMs), and Xubuntu 20.04 in <7
seconds including a 3 second delay for the multi-boot prompt.  If you
can afford Samsung, theirs are excellent.

I also have Corsair and Patriot SSDs.  The Patriot worked beautifully
until I replaced it - not because it wore out or anything else - it
was my Xubuntu 16.04 boot drive.  I replaced it because I wanted a new
drive in case, when I installed 18.04, I needed to have a 16.04 backup
handy.  I wound up buying more SSDs than I need, and who knows...
Never used the Corsair yet - it's next up when I need one.

(If anyone is curious, I did not replace it when I upgraded to 20.04
because the online upgrade failed and I didn't want to remove the disk
just for a new OS, so I installed 20.04 after wiping out the 18.04 /.
All is well now.)

Just my $0.02.

Mark