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!

Kyle Gospo•12/18/24, 6:26 AM

in /etc/fstab increase zstd to 5

Kyle Gospo•12/18/24, 6:27 AM

for HDDs

Kyle Gospo•12/18/24, 6:27 AM

the extra compression will help with both read and write speeds

KKyle Gospo in /etc/fstab increase zstd to 5

Hugo H5OP•12/18/24, 6:34 AM

That’s amazing. May I ask what exactly this means? What exactly “changes”?

Hugo H5OP•12/18/24, 6:34 AM

I’ll take a look once I’m home by the way! Thank you

HHugo H5 That’s amazing. May I ask what exactly this means? What exactly “changes”?

Kyle Gospo•12/18/24, 7:11 AM

That file contains a line for every partition that is automatically mounted on your system

Kyle Gospo•12/18/24, 7:11 AM

By default it uses zstd:1, or z standard with level 1 compression

Kyle Gospo•12/18/24, 7:11 AM

For slower drives increasing that will improve speeds

Kyle Gospo•12/18/24, 7:11 AM

Just make sure your syntax is valid, you can render your system unbootable by messing that file up

Hugo H5OP•12/18/24, 7:12 AM

Noted. Makes sense

Hugo H5OP•12/18/24, 7:13 AM

Will take a look and confirm. Chances are that’ll fix it right up. Thanks again @Kyle Gospo

Hugo H5OP•12/18/24, 7:14 AM

Oh one more question.

KKyle Gospo By default it uses zstd:1, or z standard with level 1 compression

Hugo H5OP•12/18/24, 7:16 AM

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?

Kyle Gospo•12/18/24, 7:21 AM

1 is good for NVMEs

Kyle Gospo•12/18/24, 7:21 AM

detecting hard drive type is a bit of a crapshoot -- best to assume the best

Kyle Gospo•12/18/24, 7:21 AM

and simply not be as good on older/slower stuff

Hugo H5OP•12/18/24, 7:22 AM

In that case, would it be better to stick to SSDs and remove hard drives entirely?

Hugo H5OP•12/18/24, 7:22 AM

From a hardware perspective of course

Hugo H5OP•12/18/24, 7:24 AM

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

Kyle Gospo•12/18/24, 7:24 AM

We recommend an SSD at the bare minimum for the OS

Kyle Gospo•12/18/24, 7:24 AM

for games, HDD is fine

Kyle Gospo•12/18/24, 7:24 AM

go nuts

Kyle Gospo•12/18/24, 7:24 AM

NVME is obviously preferred for the system

Kyle Gospo•12/18/24, 7:24 AM

some newer games have their own requirements on drive/drive speed

Kyle Gospo•12/18/24, 7:24 AM

ratchet and clank has an NVME as the minimum

Hugo H5OP•12/18/24, 7:28 AM

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?

Hugo H5OP•12/18/24, 7:28 AM

Would it be automatic?

Kyle Gospo•12/18/24, 7:30 AM

Honestly if you're going to get an NVMe, I would immediately just install bazzite on that and get it off of the SSD

Hugo H5OP•12/18/24, 7:37 AM

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?

Kyle Gospo•12/18/24, 7:40 AM

You would need to do it externally, even just to copy from one drive to the other

Hugo H5OP•12/18/24, 7:50 AM

I’ll have to look up on how to do that effectively then. Thank you for the advice!

Hugo H5OP•12/18/24, 2:16 PM

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?)

Hugo H5OP•12/18/24, 3:42 PM

Oh hold on. This was only specifically for the HDDs, not as a whole

Hugo H5OP•12/18/24, 3:42 PM

Update: I changed the values. Will see if it makes any difference in performance

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