On Thursday 05 August 2021 01:02:54 pm Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Anno domini 2021 Thu, 05 Aug 16:36:10 +0000
dep scripsit:
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 have a Samsung 870 QVO 1TB - simply works. I tried two SanDisk SSD Plus,
both had bad sectors. As a data graveyard I'd not use SSDs. My old HDDs
(2000, 2005 and 2010) still are in perfect shape. Now they serve as my data
graveyard on FreeBSD+ZFS. Backups go to BD :)
Nik
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Agreed for long term
backups, use a mechanical drive.
SSDs are too you to know how long term disuse will affect them.
Kate