On 12/22/17 07:56, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2017-12-21 at 11:40 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: >> On 12/21/2017 04:21 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> >> And for those of you using SSDs, make sure you have a good backup plan >> in place. SSDs are fast and a lot more reliable than they used to be. >> However, when they die, they die suddenly and catastrophically--and >> typically with no warning. I make it a rule to back up to magnetic media >> frequently as I've been bitten by that issue often in the past. > I do have a nightly backup to rotating rust, but also I reserve the SSD > for the root filesystem. It's only 120GB and I doubt that a larger one > would make much of a real-life speed difference if I put /home on it. > I also have had a backup strategy since before using SSD since HDDs can, and have, also died without warning. I backup to a RAID NAS. FWIW, my VMs are resident in my $HOME directory and they do benefit from being on the SSD. -- Fedora Users List - The place to go to speculate endlessly
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