I was wondering....

[Steve Litt]

Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Sun, 17 Oct 2021 07:16:56 -0700

>About 5 years ago I needed a Windows box for business.  I took an old
>i5 which had 16G of RAM and added a !T Samsung SSD.  It was pricy.  I 
>recalling spending $300 for that SSD.  Well worth it.  It came with a
>5 year warrantee.  I expect it might last at least 10 years or more.
>
>SSDs are a lot cheaper now.
>
>All of my boxes run SSD except my wife's computer.  It is painful to 
>boot her computer.

For anyone needing too much disk space to afford an all SSD machine,
you can do what I do. My root partition is SSD (actually NVMe), so that
/usr, /usr/bin, /etc and the like come straight off electronics. I
mount /home and other data-centric, changing pieces, including /var and
/run, from spinning rust partitions. My /tmp is a temp file system
(tempfs).

HTH,

SteveT

Steve Litt 
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