Prepare for SSD installation

I have bought an Intel 520 SSD, and I would like to install it professionally. So some notes to consider:

• EBS (Erase Block Size) - align partitioning to EBS - I was not able to know what is the EBS, so accoding to the ARCH wiki, I will align my first partition to 1MB (latest fdisk automatically aligns all partitions to 2048 sectors, or 1024 KiB, which should work for all EBS sizes)
• Filesystem: ext4 with noatime (reads wont modify anything)
• ext4 with discard option - for TRIM support
• I will let filesystem to do journalling
• Check TRIM is working

seq 1 1000 > testfile
sync
hdparm --fibmap testfile

testfile:
 filesystem blocksize 4096, begins at LBA 2048; assuming 512 byte sectors.
 byte_offset  begin_LBA    end_LBA    sectors
           0   29868576   29868583          8

hdparm --read-sector 29868576 /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
reading sector 29868576: succeeded
0a31 0a32 0a33 0a34 0a35 0a36 0a37 0a38
0a39 3031 310a 0a31 3231 310a 0a33 3431
...

rm testfile
sync

/dev/sda:
reading sector 29868576: succeeded
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
...

• Kernel 2.6.33+ has TRIM
• Over-Provisioning - I will go for 20% OP (I will have one partition, which consumes 80% of the drive)
• Change I/O Scheduler to noop or deadline for the ssd device

echo noop > /sys/block/sdX/queue/scheduler

 Sources:

• http://techgage.com/article/enabling_and_testing_ssd_trim_support_under_linux/1
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Solid_State_Drives
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM