Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye
On Wed, 27 Apr 2022 17:08:04 +0500
"Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27.04.2022 16:06, Tom Browder wrote:
> > I am trying to replace the original hard drive on an old Toshiba
> > laptop with a 1 TB SSD from Crucial. (I had recently successfully done
> > that in an old Dell Latitude and had no problems.)
> >
> > I first did a clean install of Debian 11 on the old drive to ensure
> > the laptop works okay. Then I installed the new SSD and it can't find
> > the drive. From what I can find at Crucial, I need to install their
> > Storage Executive program on a Windows host, look up the SSD to a
> > USB/SATA connector on that host, and configure or install the firmware
> > onto the SSD.
> >
> I've never heard anything like that and I've worked with many
> consumer-grade SSDs.
> Usually all SSDs "just work". They may come pre-partitioned and
> pre-formatted, but this could be reconfigured with any standard utility
> programs.
> The only thing I can think of, is that it could require usage of some
> vendor-specific proprietary software to setup hardware encryption and/or
> to update currently flashed firmware to newer versions.
There's OPAL. Presumably uncommon on consumer-grade drives, but it does
require special software to configure (although not necessarily vendor
specific software) and can be a pain to work with (at least if one isn't
familiar with them, as I wasn't when I encountered it in the wild, in a
second-hand machine ;))
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opal_Storage_Specification
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Self-encrypting_drives
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Celejar
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