SSD's and Linux

[Nevyn]

My hard drive died in my netbook so I decided to replace it with an SSD. I
brought a OCZ Vertex Plus, doubled my RAM, and have now installed it....

Anyway, I've been trying to get Ubuntu on it. I've managed to install it,
boot into it once, maybe twice and then the partition table seems to become
corrupted. Surely this shouldn't be this hard.... yet it's past midnight
and I still find myself here trying to figure this out. I'm following the
advice here:
http://www.howtogeek.com/62761/how-to-tweak-your-ssd-in-ubuntu-for-better-performance/

Could any of those options, such as the ioscheduler, be causing the
corruption?

Regards,
Nevyn
http://nevsramblings.blogspot.com/
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[Roger Irwin]

Hi,

There is one important step that you missed. *ONLY* buy an Intel SSD.
I'm sure that there are other examples of this but the one that comes to
mind is this one:
http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2011/04/hard-lesson-learned-hard-way-about-ssds.html

Post by Nevyn
My hard drive died in my netbook so I decided to replace it with an SSD. I
brought a OCZ Vertex Plus, doubled my RAM, and have now installed it....
Anyway, I've been trying to get Ubuntu on it. I've managed to install it,
boot into it once, maybe twice and then the partition table seems to become
corrupted. Surely this shouldn't be this hard.... yet it's past midnight
and I still find myself here trying to figure this out. I'm following the
http://www.howtogeek.com/62761/how-to-tweak-your-ssd-in-ubuntu-for-better-performance/
Could any of those options, such as the ioscheduler, be causing the
corruption?
Regards,
Nevyn
http://nevsramblings.blogspot.com/
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[Robert]

The vertex 2 works fine on ubuntu. OCZ usually provide a linux iso, just for
firmware updates so I recommend trying the latest firmware for your Vertex Plus.

Rob

Post by Nevyn
My hard drive died in my netbook so I decided to replace it with an
SSD. I brought a OCZ Vertex Plus, doubled my RAM, and have now
installed it....
Anyway, I've been trying to get Ubuntu on it. I've managed to
install it, boot into it once, maybe twice and then the partition
table seems to become corrupted. Surely this shouldn't be this
hard.... yet it's past midnight and I still find myself here trying
http://www.howtogeek.com/62761/how-to-tweak-your-ssd-in-ubuntu-for-
better-performance/
Could any of those options, such as the ioscheduler, be causing the
corruption?
Regards,
Nevyn
http://nevsramblings.blogspot.com/
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[Nevyn]

A bit more searching revealed that it has an issue with the Intel 945
chipset (and variants). Apparently OCZ haven't acknowledged that there's
such a problem but there were a lot of frustrated posts out there of people
stating they were just going to take 'em back.

Went and get it exchanged this morning for a lower capacity but similarly
priced Intel unit. Given that I'm such a hoard, I'm wondering how I'm going
to handle only having 40GB to pay with.

Post by Robert
The vertex 2 works fine on ubuntu. OCZ usually provide a linux iso, just for
firmware updates so I recommend trying the latest firmware for your Vertex Plus.
Rob

Post by Nevyn
My hard drive died in my netbook so I decided to replace it with an
SSD. I brought a OCZ Vertex Plus, doubled my RAM, and have now
installed it....
Anyway, I've been trying to get Ubuntu on it. I've managed to
install it, boot into it once, maybe twice and then the partition
table seems to become corrupted. Surely this shouldn't be this
hard.... yet it's past midnight and I still find myself here trying
http://www.howtogeek.com/62761/how-to-tweak-your-ssd-in-ubuntu-for-
better-performance/
Could any of those options, such as the ioscheduler, be causing the
corruption?
Regards,
Nevyn
http://nevsramblings.blogspot.com/
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