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 > -- > dep > > Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album > Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/ > ____________________________________________________ > tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
