Re: Home Directory in SSD
Doing regular backups takes pretty good care of device failure.
Depending on how it is done, it also can help recover from accidents
other than equipment failure, like deleting files in error.
That said, I have read that for some time SSD reliability has been at
least on a par with HDDs. And you also do not want to have to recover
data from a failed HDD.
Tom
On 02/06/2016 07:00 AM, 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
>
>
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