On Thursday 05 August 2021 01:29:45 pm deloptes wrote: > dep wrote: > > 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 different implementations of SSDs at home. > On the server 2x1TB in RAID1 > On the desktop until recently 1x500GB SSD and since couple of months I > added another one and created RAID1 > On the backup server I have one 120GB for the OS (I backup the borg config > on the server and USB), but considering to add a decent expansion card to > make a RAID1 there as well. > > > 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? > > The SSD speeded up things a lot - like compiling etc may be 5x and more. > But I also do not trust them that much, because if they die, they die > badly. > > I do not have any complains, failures or alike. I use the WD NAS (Red) > spinning or SSD. > > I have my home on the server and use NFS and because there is SSD on the > server and 1Gbps, it works really well and much faster than before with the > spinning WD RED 1TB > > So with one disk you could put the / and swap on that, as you mention. > > Usually the first time you boot from SSD there is the Wow-effect, because > it boots instantly :D > > I hope it helped > ____________________________________________________ nice setup. ____________________________________________________ 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
