On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 06:24:15AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > > Some people suggested using a USB thumb drive for temp and often > written files. This is a great idea because you can buy a 64GB thumb > drive for about $20.00 to $30.00 USD, and just throw it away when it > breaks. Keep the music on the SSD for speed and reliability, but if the > music player software happens to write to /tmp, that's on the thumb > drive that gets replaced every couple years. My calculations show that USB thumb drives are now very poor value. The cost/bit for USB drives is now higher than for commodity SSD sata drives, but with far lower performance and endurance. Given that a USB-to-sata converter cable can be had for less than £5, just use a a SSD instead. Of course, you really want USB 3 at least, but even on USB 2, it probably still makes some sense.
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