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I've found that it's beneficial to embrace the divide between a fast boot drive and a large data drive. If you only store your OS and programs on the boot driv
by Encosia 16y ago
I've found that it's beneficial to embrace the divide between a fast boot drive and a large data drive.
If you only store your OS and programs on the boot drive, space isn't a big concern and you gain a lot of flexibility. It's less hassle to repave the OS, migrating your data to new machines is simple, and it's easier to upgrade the boot drive as faster ones are available. That's especially nice with SSDs because you no longer have to care very much about the write limit. If my SSD boot drive wears out, I have 0 data recovery/restoration to worry about.
- stcredzero 16y agoI've found that it's beneficial to embrace the divide between a fast boot drive and a large data drive. I'm thinking of it myself, but I also thought it out further and concluded that it could be completely automated. In my case, if one just kept all files larger than 100MB on the HDD, that would be enough. Better still, I could specify certain directories to be kept on the HDD. I could do all of the above with symlinks, but setting that up once and getting the desired result automatically could be even better.