On Thursday 05 August 2021 11:36:10 am dep wrote:
Hi, everybody!
I'm giving some thought to putting an SSD in my desktop machine. The relatively small ones, ~500gb, have gotten pretty cheap, and they seem to be fairly reliable (though I can't say I utterly trust them, though traditional HDs aren't perfect in this regard, either). It seems that if properly employed, one could speed up my system considerably.
But I thought I'd ask here before pushing the buy button.
So . . . has anyone here used an SSD in a desktop machine? If so, what did you put on it?
I have 20tb of storage on the machine, most of it big photo files, and I expect to keep all of it. Absent a compelling reason to the contrary, I'd keep ~/ on a conventional hard drive as well. My initial idea is putting the / partition and swap partitions on the thing, with everything home and below staying put.
An additional consideration is my idea of keeping a fully current install where it is now, though not using it unless the SSD blows up. Is this reasonably easy to do, or would it be a giant pita?
Anyone here have any experience doing this kind of thing?
I use a Teamgroup GX2 SSD (512 GB total) for my root partition and a generic 1 TB hard drive for storage. It shouldn't be too difficult to do, but I haven't tried it. I really should because I feel like it's been written to a lot after reinstalling several different operating systems. In the future I'd just use a newer HDD.