On 07/15/2017 07:38 AM, Tim wrote:
On 15/7/2017 11:29 pm, Sherman Grunewagen wrote:
> To be clear, my issue is with the new M.2 PCIe SSD "drive" itself which I
ordered from amazon. It arrives today and I'm not certain it
> will work. I've not been able to confirm it does or doesn't, and Dell
support has been no help. (I've never used SSD before, let alone
> PCIe SSD) It's the Samsung PM961 1TB card, by the way, if anyone
> knows about this stuff.
I haven't used one either, but my friends do (one using Ubuntu, the other using
Windows, neither with any special computing skills). My
understanding is that they're supposed to be a drop-in hard drive
replacement. Your OS should work with them in the same way.
If they need any special parameters I'm unaware of them, and I would
hope that if you do a fresh install onto one of them that the installer
would do what it needs to do.
If you install a SSD by itself, you're free to experiment on it. Your other,
unplugged, drive won't be disturbed by such testing.
Thanks Tim. What "special parameters" might there be?
I've spent a few days installing F25 and all my special applications
(vmware, scilab, scribus 2.5.3, &c.) on an HDD on a different
laptop, learning F25 along the way (coming from F21).
Ideally, I'd like to format the SSD in my usual peculiar way
(a boot partition and a big volume group), pre-create the various
lv's w/in the VG, plug in my existing F25 external, and copy my
configured system into those fresh SSD partitions. Then I hand-craft
a grub2 from the previous one and write a bootloader onto the front of
the drive. This has always worked in the past. Can I expect it to work
with this PCIe SSD drive? I've no experience with SSD.
-Sherman