13 Dec
2019
13 Dec
'19
2:53 p.m.
On Friday 13 December 2019 14:25:09 Michael wrote:
Yes, that was my intention. I might eventually get into some fancier
partitioning, but for now I keep my home directory on the same drive as /
(and everything in it, such as the boot partition). I don't use my home
partition for saving anything other than very limited, temporary items.
Otherwise, I move everything to other drives. That way, if something bad
happens, I don't lose everything.
I don't need a big drive for my / and /home, and I see that I can buy SSDs on
Amazon for cheap. I saw a Samsung 500 gb SSD for about $60. My current "home"
hard drive is only 100 gb, with four serial SATA drives and two external
drives. Next is to get a bigger external hdd, as my present storage situation
is getting critical, down to megabytes in some cases, so I need to
redistribute the archives. (Note that I seem to have Gene's problem with "too
much stuff", just that it manifests in a different way.)
Any recommendations on best SSDs (most dependable, best value, etc.) would be
welcome, as I only know them by reputation, not from experience.
Bill
On Friday 13 December 2019 03:05:18 pm William Morder
via trinity-users
wrote:
I hope to get
myself an SSD to install as my home directory, which ought
to speed things up for me, at least.
I've found it better to use the SSD for whatever the computer boots from.
For things like rootfs and swap. If you can add /home to that as well
that's also good. Then spindisks somewhere else for bulk storage. (I
always use to use /data/drive, but /media/username/drive seems the new norm
for automount?)
HTH,
Michael