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Hey all-

I've got a 250gb SSD on the way to use as the internal drive in my T61. I'm aware that there are some tweaks that can be done to minimize read-writes that will reduce the life of the drive, (...putting /temp in RAM) is there anything else? TIA.

All you need to do is add noatime and discard commands to the /etc/fstab in a line which lists the SSD. After that linux will limit unnecessary reads and writes to the disk and enable TRIM function.

BTW this is for ext4 filesystem, if you use another one, look it up on the internet (don't enable discard on ext3 or you will [censored] it up!)