On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 03:06:15PM +0000, Mark Rogers wrote:
On 4 March 2015 at 13:25, Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:
The ordinary hard disk rarely rattles, the only thing that seems to make it do anything is Firefox browsing because the cache is kept in /home/chris/.mozilla. I guess I could move that too but it hardly seems worth it.
Interesting that you have everything except your home directory on the SSD card; for me the most often accessed files (other than executable binaries, libs, etc) are in my home directory.
Yes, but what else is there? There's a few bits and pieces like /boot and /run but they're so small they're not worth bothering about (i.e. leave them on the SSD). In reality the only times I read/write my home directory are:- Reading mail and news, speed not hugely important as I can't read at a magabyte a minute.
Program development, yes I could probably speed up compiles a bit by moving to SSD but I don't use a compiler often enough to worry.
Managing sound and photo files, too large to fit on my SSD now.
... and as I said, Firefox cache files.
I have ordered the Crucial 500GB SSD. I would like opinion on whether it's worth buying a PCIe SATA card to go with it?
No idea, though my gut feeling is that all the extra argy-barge probably isn't worth it.