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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • I’ve had a WD Blue SSD completely die in the past, but that could be coincidental. Then again I now have a WD Black nvme where the SMART error counter trickles upwards, so thanks for reminding me I need to change it xD

    I’ve also had a Kingston SSD fail on writes, and a Samsung SSD where the error counter trickles upwards, so it might just be coincidental. I’ve also encountered a batch of very expensive Intel SSDs dying early due to a firmware bug, so… TLDR: WD Blue is probably fine :P

    Regarding TimeShift, I’m assuming you’ve specified what it should back up, and where. By default it only backs up system files, basically everything outside your /home folder. And stores it on the root partition. That setup is great for recovering from bad system updates, but useless to protect against drive failure.

    Assuming you have specified TimeShift to backup your home folder, to a separate physical drive, then twice per day sounds fine. Daily would probably also be fine. Just ask yourself how catastrophic would it really be to loose 1 day of changes?




  • I also had the same thing, don’t worry too much about it.

    One thing is worth checking though, which happened on my laptop: After your computer is booted up normally, open a terminal and run dmesg. Is it still spamming these errors?

    What happened with mine was that it was still spamming these errors and writing them to the log file(both the log file and the journald database), causing unnecessary wear on the SSD. I filtered out the logs to the file (don’t remember how, but can probably find it again), but couldn’t find how to filter out the logs to the Journald journal.

    In my case the spamming was triggered / stopped by unplugging/plugging in the charging cable. If you run ‘dmesg --wall’ it will keep showing you the latest kernel-messages untill you abort with Ctrl+C


  • Like Synapse also said, your computer is plenty powerful and modern by Linux standards.

    Stay away from lightweight desktop environments like Mate and XFCE. They are perfectly OK, but not necessary unless your hardware is really old like 10++ years. You dont have to limit yourself to just “OK”

    Mint Edge is for new (last 1-2 years) hardware that is not compatible with Mint (which is based on the Long Term Support versions of Ubuntu, which are released every two years). I saw some news that in the future Mint will not have a separate Edge version, and just make all versions the Edge version, so don’t worry too much about.

    One little caveat though, 256GB SSD isn’t all that much these days. For most stuff it’ll be fine, but you should probably avoid installing Flatpaks as they can be quite space-hungry. Native Mint (Ubuntu) packages are usually good enough, just know that most apps will be old, since they’re only updated every two years when there’s a new version of Mint (and Ubuntu LTS). If you buy a bigger SSD just forget about this last paragraph :)