On Sat, 2020-06-06 at 10:37 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I've got rust here that's been spinning for ~12 years in my basement, > 24x7, and I expect it to spin for a while longer. > > I can't quite come to terms with the idea of storage with a suicide > clock, ticking away. And on the flipside, I'd wonder about the lifespan of the bearings and lubrication in a hard drive. Though I have a bit more faith in hard drives than solid state drives, simply due to practical experience. If you really wanted to use a SDD for swap space, and spare the lifespan of a SDD for preserving data as much as possible. Then you could use a smaller, cheaper, separate SDD for swap, tmp and var. But my favoured way of setting up a system is a separate drive for data, and everything else on a system drive. It makes setting up new installs really easy. Just wipe the old system drive and start afresh, perhaps backing-up settings to your spare drive before doing that. You don't have to worry about accidentally deleting data during an upgrade, because it's on another drive that you can unplug during the install. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1127.10.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jun 3 14:28:03 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
