My homedir sits on a fast RAID-backed NAS which is backed up nightly. All the programs I use are installed in ~/opt on this homedir, and all my window manager s

My homedir sits on a fast RAID-backed NAS which is backed up nightly. All the programs I use are installed in ~/opt on this homedir, and all my window manager settings, program settings, etc are also in my homedir. If my local drive fails, I can reinstall OpenSUSE, set up NIS to pull my user from the yp server, set up autofs to grab my homedir and other remote mounts, and have my entire dev environment all set up in under an hour. The price to pay for this is that booting and local file access is, on average, an order of magnitude slower than with an SSD. Even over gigabit ethernet the latencies are killer. This is not generally a problem once things are set up, though; my code is on the RAID anyway so the only additional latency is when some config file falls out of the cache and has to be reread. (Remember, though: RAID Is Not Backup. My homedir is backed up nightly and snapshotted hourly.)