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I just waiting for the SSD to be delivered now. Is there anything I should/can be setting up
ahead of the storage?
Aside from download and verify authenticaty of Bitcoin Core (along with other cryptocurrency application you plan to use), there are things you may want to do.
1. Make sure you've updated all package/app, if you haven't do it.
2. Enable ZRAM. Basically it's used to compress data on RAM, which is better than using swap file in most cases. Since i also use debian, i can provide a short guidance.
sudo apt update
sudo apt install systemd-zram-generator
sudo nano /etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf
systemctl daemon-reload
Your
/etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf should look like this.
[zram0]
zram-size = ram
3. Do some CPU/RAM stress test and monitor temperate of your device during test.