SSD tweaks for Ubuntu
SSD tweaks for Ubuntu SSDs have no moving parts which makes them faster and superior to HDDs, providing more bandwith , performance and response time . They stay cooler , use less power , are lighter more reliable and completely silent . If you have a low end system an SSD upgrade would speed things up significantly (RAM upgrade would be recommended as well in order to keep the system from using swap , which will wear down the SSD) . These settings have been tested on the a system with the following specs : - AMD Quad Core APU-A6 - 8 GB RAM - AMD Radeon HD 6520G - Kingston SSD NOW 30GB - Kingston SV300 120GB We are going to begin this tutorial by checking the the Health of the SSD. Search for "Disks" in Unity Dash and launch it . Editing and making rc.local executable : s udo gedit /etc/rc.local ##Add the following above "exit 0"## echo 0 > /sys/block/sda/queue/add_random (prevents the I/O of your SSD from cotributing to the entropy pool) echo 0 > /sy...