Re: Home Directory in SSD

Leslie S Satenstein <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.user.laptop
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http://www.forums.fedoraforum.org/sh...d.php?t=277082A 2012 write up.
And another good article
http://osdir.com/ml/fedora-test-list/2014-11/msg00518.html
and a third
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/79296/what-is-the-correct-way-to-setup-the-fstrim-service-on-an-encrypted-ssd-in-fedora-23/
 Regards 
 Leslie
 Mr. Leslie Satenstein
Montréal Québec, Canada



 
      From: Jos Collin <[email protected]>
 To: [email protected] 
 Sent: Saturday, February 6, 2016 10:42 AM
 Subject: Re: Home Directory in SSD
   
Keeping everything on the SSD has its advantage too - speed. But won't secure the data on the fly as keeping it on the HDD.Actually I'm confused which method to follow. Both has its own advantage and disadvantage.On 06-Feb-2016 7:54 PM, "Bennett Piater" <[email protected]> wrote:

I just keep everything on my ssd and make regular backups.
If you backup enough, which you should anyway, you'll be fine.

On February 6, 2016 3:00:57 PM GMT+01:00, Jos Collin <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have Debian/testing installed completely in my 120GB SSD. I have
>learned that if an SSD fails, it is difficult to recover data from
>them.
>An SSD often does not give much warning before it fails.
>Electronic components don’t begin to grind or buzz as they grow older.
>They work – and then they don’t.
>
>So do I have to consider this risk and move the /home and /root
>directories to an HDD as they contain the Personal Data of each user,
>and only keep the Operating System files in the SSD ? How do you people
>
>keep the /home and /root directories, when you install the OS in an SSD
>
>? (I have an Ultrabay Caddy, in which I can connect the HDD also in my
>Thinkpad T61).
>
>Please advice.
>
>Thanks,
>Jos Collin

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