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On 11/05/2015 11:06 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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>> You might be right, maybe I'll add one HDD for backup (good suggestion). |
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>> The killer is my 1TB SSD $499.99CAD |
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> Get 1 SSD for the OS, software and your home directory. (240GB is usually |
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> enough) |
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> And 1 big HDD for your data. |
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> Keep your documents and other data out of the home directory if doing this. |
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> Reason I suggest your home directory on SSD is because programs tend to store |
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> a lot in your home directory which can benefit from a faster disk. |
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It seems to me that SSD drives are slower than standard spinning disks. |
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I was just comparing my two disk with hdparm |
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1.) Western Digital model: Model=WDC WD2002FAEX-007BA0 |
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hdparm -Tt /dev/sda |
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/dev/sda: |
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Timing cached reads: 9406 MB in 2.00 seconds = 4705.88 MB/sec |
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Timing buffered disk reads: 432 MB in 3.00 seconds = 143.92 MB/sec |
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2.) Intel SSD model Model=INTEL SSDSC2BF480A5 |
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/dev/sda: |
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Timing cached reads: 1292 MB in 2.00 seconds = 645.51 MB/sec |
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Timing buffered disk reads: 536 MB in 3.00 seconds = 178.63 MB/sec |
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It seems to me the spinning disk WD is faster than my Intel SSD |
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So is there an advantage of overpaying for SSD? |
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