Libreboot Guix and SSD Samsung EVO

Libreboot Guix and SSD Samsung EVO

[znavko]

Hello, developers! I post here waiting the approval in libreboot maillist.
May be you have some help for me?

I plan to buy SSD on 250 Gb to store data there and may be further
I will use it as my system disk and also with Libreboot flashed.

I've read on linux.org.ru that bios does not see SSD Samsung EVO connected
to the motherboard with SATA III cable in any of four joints (anywhere),
but works through usb connection.
And also I've read somebody had to install drivers for its work!

Every time people say 'drivers' it makes a flash in me using LinuxLibre
and having all the issues in buying hardware.

Please, is there any issue with SSD compatibility for Libreboot?

Also, Samsung EVO is a consumer good, everybody recommend it,
but may be there is another item for buying you can recommend
in low price but safe?
Thank you.

Re: Libreboot Guix and SSD Samsung EVO

[Ricardo Wurmus]

znavko@disroot.org writes:

> Hello, developers! I post here waiting the approval in libreboot maillist.
> May be you have some help for me?
>
> I plan to buy SSD on 250 Gb to store data there and may be further
> I will use it as my system disk and also with Libreboot flashed.
>
> I've read on linux.org.ru that bios does not see SSD Samsung EVO connected
> to the motherboard with SATA III cable in any of four joints (anywhere),
> but works through usb connection.

I have only ever used Samsung EVO (those with orange label and those
with grey label) in my machines.  Of those machines one used Libreboot
and it had no problems detecting the SSD.

(I can’t guarantee that this is true for the current generation of
Samsung EVO SSDs, but I have no information to doubt it.)

-- 
Ricardo

Re: Libreboot Guix and SSD Samsung EVO

[Joshua Branson]

I recently librebooted my T400.  The SSDs and HDDs that I had lying
around worked on it.  I personally used a Corsair SSD that I bought at
Best Buy.  It worked just fine.

-- 
Joshua Branson
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