Re: Home Directory in SSD

On 06.02.16 19:30, Jos Collin wrote:
>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).

this is debian-laptop list, are you really talking about a laptop?

I consider two possibilities for my home PC
1. mirror SSD and HDD (I currently have two old 120 HDDs in mirror)
2. using bcache, dm-cache or flashcache (cache HDD on SSD)

maybe someone could share experience with some of these...
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