A solid-state drive (SSD) is a data storage device that uses solid-state memory to store persistent data with the intention of providing access in the same manner of a traditional mechanical spinning/magnetic block i/o hard disk drive.
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Very slow SSD speeds on 12.10
I recently upgraded my ultrabook to have a 128GB SSD (Crucial v4).
The speed of installing ubuntu was shockingly slow, worst i've ever experienced. Once installed i did some testing and the speeds ...
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mystery of missing file modifications (hybrid drive + Ubuntu 12.04)
Last week (Sep 10) I worked a whole day (on my Ubuntu 12.04 HP elitebook 8530p laptop) using a tex editor (TexWorks) and Jabref to maintain a Bibtex library. Today however I noticed all my ...
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Cannot install Ubuntu 10.4 but can install 12.04 and 12.10
I have 2 Lenovo thinkstation E31s with the xeon processor. Both machines have a 320 SSD and a 2 TB SATA HD, 8 gigs RAM.
I am trying to install Ubuntu 10.04 on them because for whatever reason, the ...
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Nonresponsive while copying files
I just switched from Win8 to Ubuntu 13.04 as my sole OS and it's pretty nice overall. But as the last time I tried using Linux I see I still have problems simply moving large files around and ...
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Iostat shows very little written data while installing and updating
I upgraded my T60 with a Crucial V4 128GB. Have done all the tweaks (scheduler, discard, noatime, nodirtime) and I'm finding that installing anything is very slow. Right now I'm installing some ...
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How to load HDD lazily?
I have a laptop with an SSD and an HDD. I tend to use the SSD only. On Windows 8 when I don't use the HDD for a few minutes, it goes idle and the laptop is completely silent, because SSD makes no ...
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Restoring RAID after linux installation
After Years using windows and wishing to enter the linux world, I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04. I have a Dell vostro 3460 with:
500 GB HDD
32 GB SSD mSATA (cache - not physical drive)
My ...
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How to install apps to another drive?
I have a SSD 80 gigs disk which I want to use for Ubuntu 12.10 installation and some programs like Libre Office and Firefox, but the new Steam linux and games would fill up my SSD quickly. How can i ...
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2x SSD like one drive 12.10
I want to do a clean install of ubuntu 12.10. I got 2x 40GB SSD's. I want to have them like one drive. (like RAID0), is there a way to do this with LVM, in the graphical Ubuntu 12.10 installation?
I ...
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Filesystem locks up (read-only) after HDD -> SSD clone, no sudo access, no applications
I recently cloned my old HDD to a new smaller SSD and something must have gone wrong. Windows 7 works absolutely fine, but Ubuntu 12.04 has issues - at first, it works normally, but after only a ...
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Installing Ubuntu on Cherryville SSD with GTX 680
So I have absolutely never used Ubuntu before. Shortly before Windows 8 release Valve started investing in making Steam for Linux and peaked my interest in giving a Linux OS a shot. I've installed ...
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Ubuntu on SSD does not show my 650GB HDD under devices
I installed Ubuntu on the 64GB SSD storage my laptop which also has a 650GB HDD. When I go into SYSTEM SETTINGS>DETAILS, it says I have a disk of 730GB but when I go into the file system under ...
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Unsure about TRIM enabled on my SSD
I have a SSD OCZ Vertex4 installed on my laptop. I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I have enable TRIM by adding "discard" to my fstab file. (also added option noatime). I rebooted my Ubuntu and followed ...
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How do I boot Ubuntu 12.04 from expresscard ssd
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop x64 on a Thinkpad on an express card SSD (GPT).
"Ubuntu" shows up in bootable devices in BIOS. But the boot fails and drops to the grub rescue prompt.
ls at the grub ...
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Failure to recognize internal SSD while installing 13.04
I'm trying to upgrade my Toshiba Satellite A135-S2246 laptop, running Windows 7, to Ubuntu-13.04, but my internal SSD is not recognized. From dmesg:
[ 9.100085] ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 on a 60GB Kingston SSD ( partititions and TRIm )
Whats the difference between having / and /home on a same partition / and having them saparate partitions which is better ?
/ -> 24GB
/home -> 34GB
swap -> 2GB
OR
/ -> 58GB
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second Operating system on ssd doesnt seem on grub menu
I have ssd and a hdd
I installed ubuntu on hdd , after this fedora on ssd however on grub menu only ubuntu appears. I am uploading the text file of boot info script please help .
Boot Info Script ...
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Harddrive not found after 13.04 install
I have a Toshiba laptop with a 500 GB HHD and a 32 GB SSD. I had an issue in the past when I wiped the computer clean and installed 12.04 LTS on the SSD. My HHD vanished. I looked up the answer and it ...
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Sharing folders between Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 in dual boot
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 as a dual boot in a preexisting Windows 7 PC. Both OS's are on an SSD and the Windows files are on a separate internal HDD ("Storage" in W7 : sda + sda1 in Ubuntu - I ...
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Performance issue with UBUNTU
Hello I have installed Ubuntu on an OCZ SSD 240GB because I wanted lightning performance and excellent response times. This is the case when I log in everything is great. After a while of using though ...
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2007 Macbook Pro stays white screen for about 30 seconds before vmlinux starts
I just put Ubuntu 12.04 on an old Macbook Pro that was claimed by
a MAC repair place to be dead. Well, Ubuntu breathed new life into
it. I put in an SSD. and it's running very peppy. But when I power ...
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unable to reach windows 8 in dual boot
in a HDD I have installed windows 8 and ubuntu 12.1 and all was OK. Then I attaced an ssd(kingston sv 300). My motherboard is asus m5a97 r2.0. I installed an ubuntu 12.1 to ssd. Now I cannot reach ...
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How to add Windows 7 to GRUB2?
I am currently using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and I want to dual boot it with Windows 7. Let me explain what did I do:
There was only Ubuntu 12.04 on and I get it's image with clonezilla. Ubuntu was ...
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SSD drive not mounting on Ubuntu
I have a Corsair SSD drive, but when I navigate to by going to go, then computer, and clicking on the drive, I am giving the message unable to mount location: cant mount file.
I can download items ...
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Can I install Ubuntu server on an external SSD in USB enclosure and then move it to the internal SATA connection?
I have an HTPC/server with two HDD's inside with lots of data on them and serving several web applications that I want to keep online as much as possible.
Now I'm planning to move these two HDD's into ...
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How to install Ubuntu Server 12.04 amd64 on hardware raid 1 (2 ssd) without swap and boot partitions?
For example I read that it is possible to make swap and /boot partitions to be on /, so everything to be on one partition. In fact I don't need swap, cause I think my RAM is big enough 16GB. I'm ...
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Any known problems installing 12.10 x64 on an SSD with Windows 8?
I want to install Ubuntu 12.10 on my Asus G73JW. It has an SSD with Windows 8. After a few scary installs in the past, I was hoping I could check in here and see if anyone knows of any potential ...
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Ultra slow internal SSD on Samsung Ultrabook NP530
My Samsung Ultrabook NP530 (i5, 8 GB, 16 GB internal SSD + 500 GB HD, HD4000 + Radeon 7500) has an internal 16 GB SSD which windows drivers use for caching and suspend/resume. I have no use for ...
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Losing data on SSD after sudden poweroff (maybe mount options?)
I recently upgraded my old laptop with an SSD drive, a Kingston sv300s3/120G. Everything runs smoothly, but sometimes when there's a sudden poweroff - old battery, waiting for a replacement - when I ...
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Running fstrim with traditional HDD mounted in /dev/media
Is it safe to run fstrim -v / if I have rotational HDD mounted in /dev/media?
For now, whenever I want to trim the SSD I just unmount those drives, run fstrim and mount them again.
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Lost file .xhb with homebank in ext4. It's 0 bytes now. How to restore it?
Today I switched on my laptop and saw the LED of the HDD on for long time. It never went off. Usually it stays on while booting - around 15-20 seconds. This time the laptop didn't boot and the screen ...
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Installing Ubuntu onto ssd via windows machine with external hd enclosure
Ok so I've download the ubuntu iso. What I want is to install it to the ssd I have sitting in a usb external hardrive attached to my windows machine. Then when done Im going to put it in a laptop as a ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 Thinkpad T410 SSD Disck
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T410 with 8GB of RAM to 1600ghz Hiperx Kingstong brand, model SX900 Adata SSD to 250GB, Intel Core i5 vPro to 2.4ghz. My hard drive failure so I decided to install Ubuntu ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 not seeing my SATA drives
I'm trying to install Ubuntu onto a new SATA drive. I'm using a LinuxLive USB stick with 12.04. During the install process it gets to the step where it asks me to pick a root partition, no hard drives ...
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Hangup during boot
I'm not exactly sure who the culprit is right now...probably because I have too many moving parts, but I'm doing this on brand new hardware, brand new computer. (Not that it can't be a hardware ...
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Installation on SSD with Windows preinstalled
I bought a laptop with this fancy SSD drive, fancy new UEFI aso. I figured at first Windows out Ubuntu in but after doing 3 DoA on 3 laptops in one day I realized that maybe keeping Windows could come ...
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Installing Ubuntu via Wubi - about SSDs and HDDs
I read the question in regards to installing Ubuntu with Wubi on an SSD ( How do I enable Trim on an SSD in a Wubi install under Windows 7? ).
My Windows installation is on an SSD (C: drive). My ...
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Can't access my accelerated hard disk from msdos after installing linux on ssd cache
I mistakenly installed Ubuntu on my ssd (forgot my PC actually came with one), when it detected a ~31GiB disk that it wanted to install to, I was a bit confused since I had brought out 30Gb in my ...
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hg qpush takes significantly longer with 12.10
I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 11.04 to 12.10. (By "upgrade", I mean I backed up my files and formatted my hard drive and installed Ubuntu 12.10).
Since I do a lot of stuff with mozilla code, I ...
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Question on Partitions for Dual Boost
I am wanting to go back to dual booting Windows 7 and Linux. (I'm not sure if I'll be going with Ubuntu or openSUSE yet, bcuz I want the interface openSUSE has, which I think is Gnome 3.2.1)
My ...
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OCZ Agility 3 SSD has a link speed of 1.5 Gbps in Kubuntu 12.10
I have a couple of drives installed. A standard 7200rpm hard drive is reporting a link speed of 3 Gbps in dmesg. The Agility 3 SSD is reporting 1.5Gbps.
Using hdparm gives the following results:
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Kubuntu 12.10 doesn't shutdown
I installed 12.10 to my SSD with EFI and if I use the shutdown option from the system menu it starts to shutdown but after turning off my HDDs it fails to power off completely.
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Disk full Ubuntu 12.10 60Gb Intel SSD
I have installed twice in the past couple days trying to stop this from happening but it just keeps occurring. I am a new ubuntu user and need serious help since I can't figure out why it keeps ...
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How can I copy data from a windows disk to another partition?
I have a new Solid State Drive, and it's very fast (but tiny, 128GB). But it seems to be much faster in Linux.
Now, am I correct in assuming that if I Gparted copy paste
the
{_Boot ...
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Grub installation failure when installing Ubuntu with SSD
I want to install Ubuntu on a Vaio S series with 256GB SSD.
But Ubuntu cannot install the grub boot loader. What should I do?
I face the same problems as this question, but there is no answer to ...
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How to install a bootable UBUNTU 12.04/12.10 on OCZ PCI SSD Revodrive 80GB? (not X2 or X3)
Installation from an UBUNTU 12.04/12.10 liveCD works almost well if I do a clean, automatic full erase install without preconfiguring partitions, but only until the very last moment when I get an ...
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Can't boot Ubuntu after deleting partition on hhd with boot loader
I got a new laptop(Samsung NP530U3C) which comes with 24GB of a SSD and a 500GB hard disk. I installed Ubuntu on the SSD and made a ext4 partition on the hard disk for saving media files. Boot loader ...
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Install Ubuntu on Samsung series 5 ultra SSD
I was wondering if anyone had had any luck with installing ubuntu 12.04 on samsung series 5 ultra? The thing is that I want to install root on the SSD for fast boot (along with windows7)... if anyone ...
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Get access to files on old HD installation and remove system files
I have been fooling with Ubuntu for only a year or so. Added SSD installed 12.04 64bit connected old drive with Ubuntu on it. Everything seems to work well, except for access to some files. I would ...
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problem installing on SSD
I recently purchased a Ideapad y480 with an internal SSD and another 1TB HDD. The SSD is a ATA SAMSUNG MZMPC032. I am using ubuntu live from a USB. I installed from the USB onto the SSD. I partitioned ...
