Re: Home Directory in SSD
> I have learned that if an SSD fails, it is difficult to recover data
> from them.
That's true of all storage media.
> An SSD often does not give much warning before it fails.
Not sure if it applies to all storage media, but Google hasn't had much
success in predicting failure of its HDDs, so moving from SSD to HDD
won't help on this front either.
> They work – and then they don’t.
Yup. Occasionally a HDD will fail in such a way that only part of the
data is lost. But in many other cases it "just doesn't work any more"
(at least not without investing a whole lot more time & money).
> 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 it all on my SSD, and I use daily backups.
Before that, I used an HDD, with the same daily backups.
If you don't perform regular backups, then clearly you don't care about your
data, so why bother trying to distinguish if the HDD is ever so slightly
less untrustworthy than the SSD?
And if you do perform regular backups, then you only need your storage
media to be "reliable enough", so again the minute differences in
failure scenarios for HDDs and SSDs don't matter because both of them
are "reliable enough".
The differences are important, tho:
- SSDs are silent.
- HDDs are not silent.
- Some operations are much faster with the SSD (tho those don't
affect me very much, in practice, so it's not the main selling point).
- Oh, did I mention how little noise SSDs emit?
Stefan
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