On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 12:53:23PM +0000, Mark Rogers wrote:
I'm considering SSD upgrades to my desktop and/or laptop, likely starting with my desktop.
I generally need a decent capacity on my desktop so that will be traditional storage, but I want the boot device to be SSD.
I know almost nothing about SSD so I'd like some advice.
I'm looking at (eg) Crucial MX100 SATA 512GB (~£140), but I could go up to Samsung Evo 850 for an extra £40. (Or maybe 256GB would be enough and I'd benefit more from spending my money upgrading multiple machines?)
I'm using a 128Gb Crucial MX100 for my desktop Ubuntu Linux machine, it has certainly speeded up the boot time though that wasn't really the point for me as it stays turned on all the time.
I have a 1Tb ordinary disk mounted on /home and the 128Gb SSD does everything else, very simple to set up. The 128Gb SSD is still showing only 7% use.
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.