On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 5:00 AM, Roberto
Ragusa
<mail@robertoragusa.it>
wrote:
On 12/19/2012 05:58 PM, Javier Perez wrote:
> Hi
> I am looking forward to rebuild my system.
> I want to buy a SSD to place all fixed, operating
system files in there and use the HDD for my Data and
variable operating system files.
>
> looks like /home and /var should go on the HDD.
What I'm going to say will not help you, it will confuse you
more, instead. :-)
Are you sure you want fast OS files and slow data files?
Couldn't it be the opposite?
Do you boot often? Do you start programs often?
Or maybe you have programs running all the time and just want
fast access to your data
(e.g. searches)?
The most dynamic things (/home, /var) should go the SSD, to
take advantage of the performance.
Boot time.... will you consider hibernating to SSD? Not bad at
all.
As a general rule, you will see a huge speed difference
between SSD and HDD.
The reliability of the SSD is often questioned; in my
experience, using a few of them
last years, I did not record any kind of problem.
You should have backups anyway, I think.
A good backup strategy is to make a RAID1 SSD+HDD, and usually
run in "broken mirror" mode
on the SSD, just syncing the HDD every few days/weeks.
(Added confusion, I told you...)
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Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it