I don’t know what most of those numbers mean but most of them are 0 and the overall assessment says “Disk is OK”, so I guess it wasn’t used much in the past two years. “program-fail-count-total” has a value of 94669670143499 but I’m not sure if that’s actually bad or not because “program-fail-count” is 0.

Also, as I stated before, I’m still going to prioritize my slower hard drives so I’m not stuck with them if the SSD fails before I can buy a faster drive.

I know it would be better to move Linux Mint to the internal hard drive but I’m keeping it on the external hard drive just because I don’t know how stable the SSD is. On top of the fact that I’ve heard that SSD are less stable than mechanical drives, I don’t know if the hard drive was replaced when it was refurbished and if it wasn’t, I don’t know how much it was used. I also want to prioritize my slower external hard drives so that way I’m not potentially stuck using these older hard drive, or even my much slower USB storage devices, several years from now.

Also, I ran a benchmark test on the SSD and it’s nowhere near as fast as I though it would be. The read speed is only around 520 MB/s and the Write speed is around 470 MB/s. This isn’t much faster than my current external hard drive which has somewhere around 300 MB/s for both, it’s been a while since I last tested it.

I just realized that my post is missing context if you only read just this post and not the one I linked to in the post. I have Linux installed on an external hard drive and Windows was installed to the SSD which is in the laptop. I’ve added this information to the post but I don’t need help with this anymore. I’ve already removed Windows from the SSD and have reformatted it to ext4 so I can run games from it.

Why?

If this is meant for the other user, you replied to the wrong comment.

If you meant to respond to me, I don’t need this. I’ve already removed Windows from the hard drive and I plan on using either Tiny10 or Tiny11 on this computer when I get a new computer to run Linux on in the future.

I didn’t need to do this. I never used Windows on this computer, so I didn’t have data to backup. I’ve already removed Windows from the SSD and reformatted it. I’m also keeping Linux Mint installed on the external hard drive because it runs fine from the external hard drive and I just want to run games from the SSD.

I already checked the other day, it’s on my external hard drive. Also, I’ve already removed Windows from the internal hard drive and reformatted it, so I don’t need help with this anymore.

I’d imagine that you can just clone your slower SSD and copy it over to your M2 drive but I’ve never cloned a hard drive before, so I’m probably not the best person to be asking. It might be best to create a new post for this, it’ll get seen by more people that way.

That’s not a problem for me. I’ve never had to manually add an OS to Grub before.

I didn’t need to. On top of the fact that I’ve never used Windows on this computer and I have Linux Mint installed on an external hard drive, the Windows installation needed to be repaired as my laptop’s CMOS battery died a while back and it made both Linux Mint and Windows 10 unbootable. I was able to repair Linux Mint’s installation through the LiveCD but, while I do know how to because I’ve done it on other computers, I never saw a reason to repair Windows as well and originally intended to wait until I got a new PC.

Didn’t need to. On top of the fact that I’ve never used Windows on this computer and I have Linux Mint installed on an external hard drive, the Windows installation needed to be repaired as my laptop’s CMOS battery died a while back and it made both Linux Mint and Windows 10 unbootable. I was able to repair Linux Mint’s installation through the LiveCD but, while I do know how to because I’ve done it on other computers, I never saw a reason to repair Windows as well and originally intended to wait until I got a new PC.

I don’t have much experience with Arch but I did briefly use EndeavorOS in a virtual machine. While I didn’t use it enough to form a proper opinion on it, it did seem pretty good and it’ll probably be what I use if I need an Arch-based distro (which I think I might but I don’t remember what it was I needed Arch for).

Okay thanks. I wasn’t sure if it would freak out at boot or something due to the missing OS.