I'm installing linux on an ssd, is there anything i need to do/watch out for?

[Smurfendrek]

I bought an 850 evo, and is there anything i need to do/run (maby with regards to trim?) or pay attention to anything when installing?

Is there anything i need to do differently with an ssd than with a hdd? If i want to update the firmware should i do this on windows and then install linux on it?

[HoiDaniel]

HDD's and SSD's work the same, with the only real difference is (of course) the speed. How to optimize the speed is another story; but that won't matter when you're running linux anyways.

[manikyath]

in the early days of SSDs there was some debate around swap, but i dont think people still care.

 

this may be worth a read: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Solid_State_Drives

most of what you'd need to care about is usually handled by your linux distro of choice tho.

[AlveKatt]

If you search the web there are forum threads warnings about Data loss, that's old information however, the bugs that caused this has long since been fixed.

 

I am running a Samsung 850 Evo Pro as system disk for Linux mint. If the disk has been used to run Windows you might need to run boot-repair on it though. The guys I payed to put my computer together installed windows on it to test that everything worked. The windows bootloader doesn't like other OSes and can be a pain to remove... (It was for me until I found boot-repair that I could install and run from a live-disk.)