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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2017/02/14 15:38, Stephan Budach
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10pt; color: #000000">Hi Andre,<br>
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well, I wouldn't call it dead… there is a way to accomplish,
what you want and I had already performed such an action before.
However, I cannot recall all the steps necessary. Looking at the
link Dan provided, the steps lined out in the document are
still valid and I don't think that there is an easier way to do
it.<br>
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Regarding the other issues about a general advice against using
a SSD as a rpool… there is none I know of. Depending on the
manufacturer you may want to provide enough free space on the
SSD, as I don't know if Ilumos/OmniOS have come up to speed
regarding TRIM, but you can always counter that by providing
enough space for the SSD's GC.<br>
If a SSD is suited as a rpool in Ilumos may be hard to judge.
All I know is, that you should stay away from Samsung EVOs…
unless you're operating them in a Windows environment.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Stephan<br>
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Hi Stephan<br>
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No sorry I think there is a misunderstanding. SSDs are excellent for
rpool. I was talking about taking a HDD on which rpool is installed
ie a running system. Shutting it down. Then cloning the HDD to the
SSD. Plug the SSD into the previously running machine and just boot
it up. Using this method is much easier, simpler, and faster.<br>
<br>
But, on many Windows forums there are warning cloning a HDD directly
to an SSD, of the boot drive drive C, and then using the SSD.
Apparently many users have experienced very slow performance. You
can however clone from HDD to HDD or SSD to SSD without these
performance problems. From there my question if anybody knows of a
caveat not to do it in this way if I want to clone my rpool from HDD
to SSD. If none I would rather walk this path as it is far less
trouble.<br>
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BTW, why should one steer clear of the Samsung EVO's?<br>
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Regards<br>
André<br>
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