Random Linux Questions

[dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 07:08:20PM -0400, Chris O'Connell wrote:
> Hey Guys,
> 
> A couple of quick questions:
> 1.  Does Ubuntu 9.04 support TRIM support for SSD drives?

Google: ubuntu, trim, ssd.

Answer: no, not until 10.04.

> 2.  If one were transferring data from one USB drive to another USB drive
> through a computer with two USB ports, is the hosting computer used as a
> buffer?  Does data get read and written to/from the host computer's drive?

Yes; not unless you were to set it up that way.

The data would normally be copied through in-memory buffers. You
could use a third disk as storage if you wanted to; that might
be efficient if you were writing to several identical targets.

-dsr-


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