As a sort of follow up to the post I made on my alt account, would I need to do to anything to Grub to continue using Linux Mint after removing Windows or would I still be able to boot into Linux Mint without having to do anything? As stated in the previous post, Windows is installed onto an SSD and I want run games from that SSD but I’d need to reformat the SSD in order to use it.
Edit: I don’t need help with this anymore but because it seems like there is some confusion, I’m including the fact that I have Linux installed onto an external hard drive and Windows was installed onto the SSD which is in the laptop. I’ve already remove Windows from the SSD and reformatted it to ext4 so I can run games from it.
I know it would be better to move Linux Mint to the internal hard drive but I’m keeping it on the external hard drive just because I don’t know how stable the SSD is. On top of the fact that I’ve heard that SSD are less stable than mechanical drives, I don’t know if the hard drive was replaced when it was refurbished and if it wasn’t, I don’t know how much it was used. I also want to prioritize my slower external hard drives so that way I’m not potentially stuck using these older hard drive, or even my much slower USB storage devices, several years from now.
Also, I ran a benchmark test on the SSD and it’s nowhere near as fast as I though it would be. The read speed is only around 520 MB/s and the Write speed is around 470 MB/s. This isn’t much faster than my current external hard drive which has somewhere around 300 MB/s for both, it’s been a while since I last tested it.
that’s not true at all, maybe when they were new 15 years ago. the very fact they have no moving parts makes them inherently much more reliable.
update its firmware, and smart test it if you are in doubt. you can also tell the % of it’s life cycle and many statistics about its lifetime use through smart. meaning
smartctlor equivalent tool.those are sequential speeds. real world use is represented by the random read benchmarks and seek latency. on those scenarios every ssd will be an order of magnitude faster than any hdd.
you would feel and measure a huge difference in real world performance over a painful usb hdd. which can be prone to connection issues, causing all sorts of problems.
i’d probably leave it for easy distro-hopping with if you are new to linux and enjoy messing with it.
I don’t know what most of those numbers mean but most of them are 0 and the overall assessment says “Disk is OK”, so I guess it wasn’t used much in the past two years. “program-fail-count-total” has a value of 94669670143499 but I’m not sure if that’s actually bad or not because “program-fail-count” is 0.
Also, as I stated before, I’m still going to prioritize my slower hard drives so I’m not stuck with them if the SSD fails before I can buy a faster drive.
ssds are hardy even if you don’t take good care of them. i’ve used a few for a decade and they still have 90% of their lifetime writes.
format it 10% smaller than its capacity, get updated firmware, don’t let it get too hot, avoid hitting swap and it’s lasting you long. maybe use power saving modes if you are really worried.