On Friday 19 Jul 2013 17:43:39 Dale wrote: > luis jure wrote: > > on 2013-07-19 at 01:56 Dale wrote: > >> Do you really want to put /home on a SSD? > > > > well, not actually the whole /home, the SSD is too small for that. i'm > > not sure yet, i might keep /home on a HDD and mount the partition on the > > SSD as a directory under /home for some special uses. or the other way > > around... > > Size was one issue I thought of but I was more concerned with the wear > and tear part but that was explained by others. It seems that is not as > much a issue any more. > > At one time, I had a /data directory. I stored large stuff there: > camera pics, videos, audio stuff and such. If you put /home on SSD, you > could always put the larger stuff on another mount point. One thing > about Linux, you can mount stuff wherever you want. > > Post back how it works out and any speed improvements you see. I'm > really curious since I would like to get one that is at least big enough > for the OS itself. My /home is over 1Tb, that is Tb too. I'm not buying > one big enough for all that. lol > > Dale > > :-) :-)
I have a MUCH smaller /home than Dale and on a new box I was thinking of having it on a HDD, along with all things portage related. I typically resync 3 -4 times a week but I am not sure how much erase/write cycles this represents. Also, /home is written all the time with mail and various application profile folders, browser cache and what have you. That's why I was thinking that /usr/portage, /var/tmp/portage, /var/log, /home and /swap were candidates for HDD. I guess the rest under / does not change that often and a weekly or even monthly back up would be all that is necessary to facilitate recovery when the SSD dies on me. Am I being too cautious with current technology SSDs? BTW, unless anyone advises differently, I was thinking of buying a SanDisk Extreme II, SATA III, 2.5" 240GB SSD. I read that its SLC cache improves speed and reliability, but I don't know if true. -- Regards, Mick
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