On Friday 13 December 2019 14:25:09 Michael wrote:
> On Friday 13 December 2019 03:05:18 pm William Morder via trinity-users 
wrote:
> > I hope to get myself an SSD to install as my home directory, which ought
> > to speed things up for me, at least.
>
> I've found it better to use the SSD for whatever the computer boots from. 
> For things like rootfs and swap.  If you can add /home to that as well
> that's also good.  Then spindisks somewhere else for bulk storage.  (I
> always use to use /data/drive, but /media/username/drive seems the new norm
> for automount?)
>
> HTH,
> Michael
>

Yes, that was my intention. I might eventually get into some fancier 
partitioning, but for now I keep my home directory on the same drive as / 
(and everything in it, such as the boot partition). I don't use my home 
partition for saving anything other than very limited, temporary items. 
Otherwise, I move everything to other drives. That way, if something bad 
happens, I don't lose everything. 

I don't need a big drive for my / and /home, and I see that I can buy SSDs on 
Amazon for cheap. I saw a Samsung 500 gb SSD for about $60. My current "home" 
hard drive is only 100 gb, with four serial SATA drives and two external 
drives. Next is to get a bigger external hdd, as my present storage situation 
is getting critical, down to megabytes in some cases, so I need to 
redistribute the archives. (Note that I seem to have Gene's problem with "too 
much stuff", just that it manifests in a different way.) 

Any recommendations on best SSDs (most dependable, best value, etc.) would be 
welcome, as I only know them by reputation, not from experience. 

Bill