# Formatting SSDs

**URL:** <https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/formatting-ssds/1275>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [May 14, 2015, 7:04pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/formatting-ssds/1275 "2015-05-14T19:04:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![mlabour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b77776/32.png) [@mlabour](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/mlabour)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 7:04pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/formatting-ssds/1275/1 "2015-05-14T19:04:29Z")

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Hi Does one need to format the SSDs? And if yes then to what file system (ext4? xfs?) Thank you

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**Author:** ![kporter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.aerospike.com/kporter/32/515_2.png) [@kporter](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/kporter)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 8:17pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/formatting-ssds/1275/2 "2015-05-14T20:17:49Z")

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[SSD Setup instructions can be found here.](https://www.aerospike.com/docs/operations/plan/ssd/ssd_setup.html) And [here for how to “format” them.](https://www.aerospike.com/docs/operations/plan/ssd/ssd_init.html)

The preferred way to run Aerospike is not going through a filesystem.