Also you can add <i>noatime,nodiratime,discard</i> to the options of your fstab config. But if you don&#x27;t have SATA 3.1 or higher then don&#x27;t use the <i>discard</i> option but instead add <i>fstrim &lt;path&gt;</i> to a chron job or rc.local. The other options I mentioned turn off recording of access times to files&#x2F;dirs.<p>And you can set the noop scheduler using <i>echo noop &gt; &#x2F;sys&#x2F;block&#x2F;&lt;device e.g. sda&gt;&#x2F;queue&#x2F;scheduler</i>. Whether that&#x27;s the best option for you depends, but if you have an SSD it might be.<p>Finally if you&#x27;re using full disk software encryption, do check if your SSD supports hardware-level encryption instead and if your BIOS allows you to set its key.