Disk optimisation?
Hi guys. Nothing serious, just wanted to know if there’s something I can do regarding optimising my hard drives? I have a good few hard drives with Bazzite installed, and I see some games take their time to load, or tend to stutter when loading things from the disk. Might just be a hardware issue or something, but I wanted to know if there’s anything I should keep in mind when it comes to this? Should I just get one big SSD instead of multiple different disks? I initially installed Bazzite on 2 HDDs and 2 SSDs.
Any advice would be very helpful! Thanks!
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in /etc/fstab increase zstd to 5
for HDDs
the extra compression will help with both read and write speeds
That’s amazing. May I ask what exactly this means? What exactly “changes”?
I’ll take a look once I’m home by the way! Thank you
That file contains a line for every partition that is automatically mounted on your system
By default it uses zstd:1, or z standard with level 1 compression
For slower drives increasing that will improve speeds
Just make sure your syntax is valid, you can render your system unbootable by messing that file up
Noted. Makes sense
Will take a look and confirm. Chances are that’ll fix it right up. Thanks again @Kyle Gospo
Oh one more question.
Is there a reason it uses zstd:1 by default? Is it a “safer” option, like with how CPUs don’t initially run their memory profile until it’s set up in BIOS? Or is there another reason?
1 is good for NVMEs
detecting hard drive type is a bit of a crapshoot -- best to assume the best
and simply not be as good on older/slower stuff
In that case, would it be better to stick to SSDs and remove hard drives entirely?
From a hardware perspective of course
I guess that much is obvious but I suppose it’s worth asking. I can’t say how big the difference will be between configuring hardware differently (only SSD) or changing the file to zstd:5
We recommend an SSD at the bare minimum for the OS
for games, HDD is fine
go nuts
NVME is obviously preferred for the system
some newer games have their own requirements on drive/drive speed
ratchet and clank has an NVME as the minimum
Noted. I believe the OS should be on a 240GB SSD. This was what I originally used for Windows OS as well, before I made the switch.
On that note, if I were to get an NVME and install it, what would be the procedure to mount it? Any specific format I need to use? I see there is a Disk program available to use on the OS, would that be the optimal way to do it?
Would it be automatic?
Honestly if you're going to get an NVMe, I would immediately just install bazzite on that and get it off of the SSD
In that case, would there be a way to do it on the OS itself, or would I need to do it externally like I initially did? Via USB Flash Drive?
You would need to do it externally, even just to copy from one drive to the other
I’ll have to look up on how to do that effectively then. Thank you for the advice!
Another question. If I install an NVME and move the OS onto it, do I still take the steps to change the file to “zstd:5” if the rest of my setup remains the same? (2 HDD, 2 SATA SSD?)
Oh hold on. This was only specifically for the HDDs, not as a whole
Update: I changed the values. Will see if it makes any difference in performance