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I'm planning to buy an SSD (Corsair Force Series 60GB) but haven't found any reassurance that it is "safe" to install Ubuntu 11.04 on without commands or "hacks". I want to install Ubuntu on an SSD and don't want to care about writing commands after the installation to fix TRIM support.

My question is: Can I install Ubuntu 11.04+ on an SSD just like I do on an HDD and not have problems with TRIM and performance? Or does Ubuntu not support TRIM without technical configuration?

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Yes it works, look at it this way, it's like installing Ubuntu into a Massive USB drive. – Uri Herrera Jul 8 '11 at 3:16
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I am not sure if Ubuntu enables TRIM by default (see automatic TRIM on this question for a way to enable it). After that, you do not need to anything more. – Lekensteyn Jul 8 '11 at 9:41
works on ubuntu 11.10 (32 bit) too! Confirmed by me. – Celso Oct 24 '11 at 12:29
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Enabling TRIM support does help maintain the highest performance of an SSD over time. Enabling it is fairly simple, see this guide: How to enable TRIM? (old link, for reference: https://sites.google.com/site/lightrush/random-1/howtoconfigureext4toenabletrimforssdsonubuntu)

You'll be happy with Ubuntu on an SSD -- it's quite snappy and works very well.

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Your answer would be better if you linked to an internal question, as we can always keep it up to date and fix it ourselves, which we can't do on external blogs: askubuntu.com/questions/18903/how-to-enable-trim Consider adding the information from that site to that answer – Jorge Castro Jul 15 '11 at 14:00
Link updated, old link kept for reference. – David Jul 15 '11 at 18:48
Well, going to get my SSD this week, so i'm going to see how it works on ubuntu. thanks a lot for the answers. – Celso Jul 19 '11 at 18:20
David's link doesnt appear to answer the OP's question. The OP is asking about 11.04, but the link refers to 10.10. There is a difference here, right? – user24877 Sep 12 '11 at 20:37
Duderino, David's link is refering to 10.10 but in my case, it works with the same commands. it worked for me but it may not work on others computers. By the way,i got my SSD and works very good with no problems and is very fast. Thanks for the help! – Celso Sep 13 '11 at 15:34
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