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Seeking advice for new ssd and distro (self.linux)

submitted 8 months ago by Murdoc to c/[email protected]

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Not choosing them, I’ve done that. I just want to make sure that I install them right and am not missing anything. What I’m doing is installing a second ssd on my desktop, and then I want to install a new distro (opensuse) on it, to use instead of my current one.

What I have now is 1 ssd, with partitions for linux (kubuntu), windows (10), and swap, and an hdd with my home dir on it. What I want is to install opensuse on my new ssd, have a second partition on there for games, keep my hdd home dir, and then be able to use the first ssd for more space, probably games too (and finally ditch windows!).

Things I’m not sure about include:

can I keep my current home and use it with the new distro?
What do I do with the second partition on the new ssd I want for games? I.e. How do I configure it, the same as home, just call it something different? Same goes for the new space on the first ssd obviously.
Is there anything special I need to do to install an ssd since I haven’t done that before? Is it basically the same as installing a hdd?
New ssd (Firecuda 530 1TB) has encryption; how will that work? Is it all automatic, or do I need to do anything special with it?

TIA

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[–] Murdoc 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

            
              Ah, gotcha. Thanks. Exactly the sort of detail I made this post for.
Pretty sure, unless partitions can span multiple drives or something? I want to keep the data on my hdd home where it is, except for the games. Too much to move anyway. For the new ssd, I want an os partition and a data partition like I have now, but this will be mostly for games that will benefit from the speed; I'll use the hdd for media files and such. Once all that is up and working, I can get rid of the stuff on the old ssd and use it for more game space or whatever.
I just want games and os on the ssd, and data files on the hdd. 3 parts is all I know atm.
Idk anything about it, I just see all these ssds advertising their "256 bit aes encryption" or whatever. I tried looking it up, and could read how great it was, but not what it was like to actually use it, particularly under linux. It's not a big deal that I even use it really, I just wanted to make sure that I don't screw something else up just because it's there and I don't know what to expect.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Self encrypting drives are non-trivial to configure in Linux. I’d stick with LUKS software encryption unless there is a good reason to use it. More and more drives are supporting hardware encryption with OPAL though.

If your drive is unlocking itself automatically all the time without authentication, any encryption it is doing doesn’t really matter since someone could just pop it into any machine and read from it.