Partitioning between SDD and HDD

[Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.]

On 12/21/2012 07:30 AM, Javier Perez wrote:
> Hi, Roberto, I understand your point. One is more likely to be 
> shuffling data than programs, therefore it is better to put the data 
> on the faster storage medium.
> But the way I understand it, there is a limited number of times that 
> one can write to a SSD due to the intrinsic nature of the media. 
> Therefore I would not like to put write intensive files like data, 
> caches, etc on this drive.
>
> Makes sense?
>
> Javier
>
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 5:00 AM, Roberto Ragusa <mail at robertoragusa.it 
> <mailto:mail at robertoragusa.it>> wrote:
>
>     On 12/19/2012 05:58 PM, Javier Perez wrote:
>     > Hi
>     > I am looking forward to rebuild my system.
>     > I want to buy a SSD to place all fixed, operating system files
>     in there and use the HDD for my Data and variable operating system
>     files.
>     >
>     > looks like /home and /var should go on the HDD.
>
>     What I'm going to say will not help you, it will confuse you more,
>     instead. :-)
>
>     Are you sure you want fast OS files and slow data files? Couldn't
>     it be the opposite?
>     Do you boot often? Do you start programs often?
>     Or maybe you have programs running all the time and just want fast
>     access to your data
>     (e.g. searches)?
>
>     The most dynamic things (/home, /var) should go the SSD, to take
>     advantage of the performance.
>
>     Boot time.... will you consider hibernating to SSD? Not bad at all.
>
>     As a general rule, you will see a huge speed difference between
>     SSD and HDD.
>     The reliability of the SSD is often questioned; in my experience,
>     using a few of them
>     last years, I did not record any kind of problem.
>     You should have backups anyway, I think.
>     A good backup strategy is to make a RAID1 SSD+HDD, and usually run
>     in "broken mirror" mode
>     on the SSD, just syncing the HDD every few days/weeks.
>
>     (Added confusion, I told you...)
>
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>
You mean that all this hype over SSD's and they're LIMITED? I thought 
they were supposed to be BETTER than the spinning drives of today? 
Exaclty how are they better if they come "out-of-the-box" with 
limitations? Just curious...


EGO II
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