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On the same machine (Lenovo ThinkCentre M600 Tiny Thin Client N3000 terminal), installing pure FreeBSD 14.1 (UFS fs) and Debian (EXT3 fs) distributions, the disk performance results are dramatically different. Result from dmesg (FreeBSD): ada0 at ahcich1 bus 0 scbus1 target 0 lun 0 ada0...

Hello. Do I have to specify the sector size manually in gpart if BSDINSTALL writes force4K, or BSDINSTALL do all right? This is geom disk list output: Geom name: da0 Providers: 1. Name: da0 Mediasize: 256060514304 (238G) Sectorsize: 512 Stripesize: 4096 Stripeoffset: 0 Mode...

If you have a WD Blue SA510 SSD of any capacity you need to update its firmware and backup your data before it gets bricked . It happened to mine today . Since WD has not communicated about this in any meaningful way, send this to anyone who you may think could be affected ...

In his latest Valuable News – 2024/05/27 post, vermaden identifies the Solid-State Drive Tester web site. It dosuments metrics for a wide range of SSD, and USB storage devices. Definitely worth bookmarking.

Is there a way to configure a usb based swap and plug it into my pfSense system and edit the folder pointing to /etc/fstab for the usb swap and use that? I have a 128GB ssd but the software didn’t configure a swap. My compex WiFi card is crashing and going into system panic when it runs full...

I'm having a lot of trouble understanding and calculating the alignment. OBJECTIVE: Know how to calculate the alignment for my HD, So I can align my HDs on my Laptop, 2 Nvme and 1 SSD, They are different brands and different sizes Problem 1: How do I create a partition table with 4096 byte...

Hi everyone. A common question from FreeBSD users across desktop, server, and vendors is "which chips, NIC, SSD, WiFi, etc. hardware makers consistently offer good FreeBSD support?" This is a priority for me and a first step is to catalog the hardware makers that DO offer good support so the...

I bought a handful of Silicon Power 2tb ssd's a while back (got rid of them after a couple rounds of SP replacing them under warranty) and they were slow as molasses in my MacBook Pro, my Lenovo T430, my Lenovo Y500, externally connected via USB 3, etc. So, I kind of gave up on big SSDs and...

Hi everybody, I'm a new FreeBSD user, I recently installed FreeBSD 13.2p8 on an old Thinkpad T400 laptop with a "Samsung 850 EVO" SSD, I found the following lines in my dmesg: ada0 at ahcich0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0 ada0: <Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB EMxxxxxx> ACS-2 ATA SATA 3.x device...

Hi FreeBSD Gurus! In case using bsd-based bare metal rack server as a gate fw/router: 1. How effectively would be using ZFS (in comparison to GPT, etc) file system in hardware RAID10 (4 of SSD TLC/MLC drives) ? 2. Is separating of /var, /tmp (also may be /usr) to another disk's logical volume...

Guys I changed my disks in my T430 to make a better backup routine. Before I had a strip with 3 ssd's with 1 tb each. I changed to root in a 240gb, home in a 1tb, and I left 1tb for dual booting with OBSD. And the last 1tb I took out of the note and put it in a case for external use. Everything...

I found two articles about installing FreeBSD on SSD drives: 1. FreeBSD and Solid State Devices 2. Using a Solid State Drive with FreeBSD The first one is extremely worried about the SSD lifetime, the second one is not. Which guide do you suggest for installing FreeBSD on a 2021 laptop with a...

Vermaden's Valuable News – 2022/09/19 has a link to a great article on Exploring the Best ZFS ZIL SLOG SSD with Intel Optane and NAND. It looks at the relative performances of various types of (mostly enterprise class) SSDs, with mixes of SATA, NVMe (U2, M2, and PCIe), and Optane devices. They...

I've noticed that having torrented files (OS images, etc) download directly to the storage zpool can really slow down reads from the pool. Pausing the download software during sustained read events temporarily resolves the issue, but isn't really something I can do regularly. I have a spare SSD...

Backblaze 2022 Drive Stats Mid-year Review, SSD Edition, suggests that SSDs are more reliable as boot disks than traditional disks.

Hi, I recently bought some new SATA drives and they are not seen by the system. They are KingBank SSD drives. I see them found by the kernel loader, but they are not seen as ada drives for example. I have an Intel drive that works just fine though. The motherboard is a S2882d Tyan and the SATA...

I knew that Intel had sold off its SSD business to SK hynix, but didn't know that the Optane business is being written off with a half billion dollar impairment. Ouch!

I need a 240 GB 2.5" SSD suitable for a boot disk. It will be mirror'd with my old 240 GB Intel SSD DC S3520, and have a small partition for a SLOG. Does anyone have experience of the Seagate IronWolf 110 SSD? It looks to me to be on product run-out, at just about half the price of a 2.5"...

Dear All, looking for some info to tuning and extend the life of my SSD disks I couldn't find any valuable information. The documentation reports: None of these make sense for me. My knowledge of FreeBSD is still very limited and my knowledge of ZFS is even narrower. On Linux I can...

Hello collegues! I got a task which I cannot find a solution. There is a server wich will act as BRAS or gateway, so it will just only boot from disk and then will not use it for working purposes. The idea is to use ssd with ZFS and mounted-out logs and other rewritable data with tmpfs. This...