Although more commonly used across smartphones, SD cards can also be a secondary storage facility across computers. While users connect SD cards to the computer to store their data, they might need to format it. Things get more complicated when the whole process is covered in Linux. The artic...
The Solid State Drive (SSD) has transformed storage technology by providing outstanding speed, accuracy, and lower power consumption. SSDs have many advantages, but to truly enjoy the full benefits and advantages of them, we should ensure that our Linux system configuration is fully optimized. To...
📖You may be interested:How to Clone Linux HDD to SSD Without Re-installing Many people view USB formatting as a taxing operation. There are many different things to watch out for when it comes to windows, and Linux makes it far more straightforward. Don't worry. Once you've read this...
To access data on a disk, the Linux kernel uses the system of layers shown in Figure 4-2. The SCSI subsystem and everything else described in 3.6 In-Depth: SCSI and the Linux Kernel are represented by a single box. (Notice that you can work with the disk through the filesystem as w...
Linux offers the “Smartctl” and “nvme-cli” command line tools to test the health of SSD/HDD. These tools are used to visualize the “percentage_used ”, “power_on_hours”, “unsafe_shutdowns”, and many more in the terminal. Users can also utilize the “Disks” application in GU...
Naturally, monitoring and maintaining our storage is important to prevent software and hardware damage. One of the most important parameters, especially in SSDs, is temperature. In this tutorial, we’ll introduce some ways to read HDD (Hard Disk Drive) and SSD (Solid-State Drive) temperatures ...
In this article, we will go through the necessary steps that can enable you to determine the presence or absence of bad sectors on your Linux disk drive.
A partition must be formatted to prepare it for use, but a partition can also be formatted to erase all its data, to establish a different filesystem, or to fix errors. In this article, we will show you how to format disk partitions on Linux, assuming that you have already created the...
We will be going with theTerminalin which we will be using the following commands to check the status of ourNVME SSD. Step 1: First, we will have to install the NVME-CLI using the following command: sudoapt-get installnvme-cli
Test whether the TRIM function is working in Ubuntu. In the terminal, type: sudofstrim-v/ This will clean up the root partition of the SSD. If successful, you should see something that resembles the following image. Set a cron job for the OS to send the TRIM command once everyday. ...