Keeping everything on the SSD has its advantage too - speed. But won't secure the data on the fly as keeping it on the HDD.
Actually I'm confused which method to follow. Both has its own advantage and disadvantage.
I just keep everything on my ssd and make regular backups.
If you backup enough, which you should anyway, you'll be fine.
On February 6, 2016 3:00:57 PM GMT+01:00, Jos Collin <joscollin@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have Debian/testing installed completely in my 120GB SSD. I have
>learned that if an SSD fails, it is difficult to recover data from
>them.
>An SSD often does not give much warning before it fails.
>Electronic components don’t begin to grind or buzz as they grow older.
>They work – and then they don’t.
>
>So do I have to consider this risk and move the /home and /root
>directories to an HDD as they contain the Personal Data of each user,
>and only keep the Operating System files in the SSD ? How do you people
>
>keep the /home and /root directories, when you install the OS in an SSD
>
>? (I have an Ultrabay Caddy, in which I can connect the HDD also in my
>Thinkpad T61).
>
>Please advice.
>
>Thanks,
>Jos Collin
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