Partitioning between SDD and HDD

[Javier Perez]

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>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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