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I should add, that you can run a hybrid setup where you run your
system on the SSD and put your home directory on an spinning
drive. That's actually how I have most of my systems setup as I
use a HUGE amount of space. That way all the stuff that needs to be
fast is and the stuff that just needs to be stored is on the cheaper
spinning disks.<br>
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If you want to do that, you can same a lot of money and just get a
240gig SSD, which is more than enough for your system files, and
spend the different in cost for a couple of terabytes of spinning
storage.<br>
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If you want to get really fancy, you could partition part of your
SSD off and use it as a cache for your spinning drive and kinda have
you cake and eat it too.<br>
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Brian Cluff<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/1/19 1:05 PM, William Lindley
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<p>Contemplating ordering an SSD as at least the boot and main
drive for my PC.</p>
<p>Is that even a good idea? Are /var, logfiles, and all the
other stuff that constantly gets written to disk, still a Really
Bad Idea for solid-state memory with its limited write cycle
times?</p>
<p>Or is that no longer an issue?</p>
<p>And does anyone really trust SSD to maintain actual documents,
family photos, and such over long periods of time?</p>
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