On Friday 13 December 2019 14:25:09 Michael wrote: > 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 > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
