Re: Home Directory in SSD

On 11/02/2016 15:23, Stefan Monnier wrote
> I have it all on my SSD, and I use daily backups.
> Before that, I used an HDD, with the same daily backups.
>
> If you don't perform regular backups, then clearly you don't care about your
> data, so why bother trying to distinguish if the HDD is ever so slightly
> less untrustworthy than the SSD?
>
> And if you do perform regular backups, then you only need your storage
> media to be "reliable enough", so again the minute differences in
> failure scenarios for HDDs and SSDs don't matter because both of them
> are "reliable enough".
>
> The differences are important, tho:
> - SSDs are silent.
> - HDDs are not silent.
> - Some operations are much faster with the SSD (tho those don't
>    affect me very much, in practice, so it's not the main selling point).
> - Oh, did I mention how little noise SSDs emit?
>
>
>          Stefan
That is not untruth, but if you think about ecology, a media that lives 
5-10 years is not the same thing that one living 3-5 years.

You trade lifetime for comfort , maybe another one will make a different 
choice ? To take en example : you can decide to drive a Ferrari at 160 
Mph, and you'll gain a lot of time in transfer, but you'll have the risk 
of an accident and a shorter life. It's your choice, not THE only choice.

hervé