Partitioning between SDD and HDD

[Roberto Ragusa]

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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