Re: General question regarding SSD and harddrive
On 15/7/23 09:05, zithro wrote:
Generally, you put your OS and programs on an SSD, so your experience
is snappy: they are fast and have a low latency.
Then you put your data on HDDs (rotating rust), because you don't need
speed but gigas/teras.
As you seem to want to buy a new computer and/or new parts, you'd
install the OS on the new SDD, while keeping your old 2TB as storage.
For drive costs, as of yesterday, I was able to buy a 500GB Samsung NVME
drive for $49AUD - say $35USD. It's not that expensive at all.
Zithro describes a very sensible approach:
I will add though that cloud storage is becoming more affordable and you
have an option where you keep all the highly used stuff on your personal
drive and have a virtual remote drive for the less frequently accessed
stuff.
There are various providers that provide differing levels of 'seamless',
such as virtual drives where the remote content looks like a folder on
your PC but in reality every time you access a file it is fetched from
the internet, or written back to the internet.
In Debian, dropbox is well integrated, but you have to configure it to
not keep a full copy on your local drive.
With Debian 12 you also have the option of using your Google Drive as a
virtual folder on your system, where everything is actually kept at the
Google end.
Big offisite storage is a bit expensive, but if you are archiving,
Amazon S3 is around $8 per month for 2TB archive grade storage. Other
vendors will probably be cheaper
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