On Sun, 2018-06-03 at 11:39 +0200, Ahmad Samir wrote:
On 3 June 2018 at 07:00, Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net> wrote:
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> /home is fine to go on the HDD, it's not going to slow things down.
>
Actually it would make a rather noticeable difference, I didn't
measure exactly how much, in some apps loading times, e.g.:
- Firefox will read/load (and write) the user's profile from
~/.mozilla, having it on the SSD should be beneficial
- Opening an ePub in e.g. Calibre, having the file on the SSD, it's faster
- Even just opening a folder in Dolphin, the folders that reside on
the HDD (which are symlinked in my ~/) open a little bit slower than
the ones on the SSD
My point is, if you have an SSD, make use of the speed (otherwise why
shell out and get one in the first place).
I have an SSD as root and boot. I find it gives dramatically faster
boot times and general DE startup, and presumably faster swap if that
ever needs to be used. I guess it also impacts on temp file usage
though I haven't measured it.
poc