On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 06:50:51 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard <[email protected]> dijo:
>If I were buying hard drives now my choices would be different than they >were when I assembled this hardware. However, given that I have vastly >excessive HDD space I might as well use it. Since I am not supporting a >bunch of users my decisions are less critical than were I setting up a >company or department server. So far no one has mentioned a partition system that recently saved me considerable downtime, so I will add my tuppence to the thread. A couple years ago I bought a new 17" System76 laptop with a 512MB SSD and a 1TB hybrid drive to replace my still functional Thinkpad T61. I installed Xubuntu with separate partitions for / and /home, both on the SSD, leaving the hybrid drive empty for future expansion. The SSD is currently 69% used. A few months after buying the laptop the video started going wonky. After much poking and consulting with System76 support it was determined that the video chip was the culprit. This required shipping the laptop back to System76 for a motherboard replacement under warranty (excellent service, btw). I told them that I was going to ship it back with just the hybrid drive and that they could install whatever they wanted on the hybrid. Meantime I bought a USB adapter to hold the SSD for a few bucks from the local store that we love to hate. I put the SSD into it, plugged it into the Thinkpad and booted to it. I was pleasantly amazed. Everything was exactly as it had been - even the video came up perfectly. I didn't need to tweak anything. I was completely back in business and I suffered no downtime at all. I like the idea of separate partitions for / and /home, but I am now a firm believer in keeping them on the same physical drive. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
