Hi Jos,
Usually SSDs are used to store things that you want to load as fast as
possible. Generally this includes files, that the OS requires during its
booting, application that you use very often etc. I would recommend that
you store things like Music, Documents, Videos etc. to an HDD not only
because its easier to diagnose for failures but also because you don't
require that much performance for such files and because of the much
larger space a good old HDD offers compared to a modern SSD. If you have
partitioned your SSD in a manner that /home is not where / is moving
your /home won't be a problem at all.
Regards,
Alex
On 02/06/2016 03:00 PM, Jos Collin 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
>