SSDs and HDDs

[Steven Jones]

Hi,


In the old Unix days swap was used as ram was so expensive so us unix engineers would do swap capacity matching ram.  These days with 4~16gb ram desktops anything more than 2gb of swap is pointless, certianly 2 x 2gb is overkill.


regards

Steven



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From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com <ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com> on behalf of Jason Sauders <jasauders at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, 18 February 2016 3:02 p.m.
To: Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions
Subject: Re: SSDs and HDDs

Hi there, Tony. You'd want to use advanced partitioning for this once you reach the partitioning menu during installation. From there you can select your SSD and add your swap and OS partition. I personally set up my swap partition to be around the size of RAM I have. Beyond that I just add an EXT4 partition. Just make sure you set its mount point to /, which is root. This is where the OS and all of your applications will be installed to.

With the second drive, i.e. the data drive you want to utilize as your home drive for files, you can simply add a partition to it (I use EXT4 here also) and then set its mount point to /home.

For example, I have a 60GB SSD and 1TB data drive in my desktop. My partitioning scheme is roughly this:

/dev/sda (SSD)
/dev/sda1 - 8GB SWAP
/dev/sda2 - 50GB-ish EXT4 mounted as /

/dev/sdb (HDD)
/dev/sdb1 - 1TB EXT4 mounted as /home

I also make sure that during installation I set my SSD to be the boot drive. At the bottom of this partitioning screen you'll see this option. In the last... uh... well, countless installations I've done with SSD and HDD combos, the installation has set my SSD as the default boot drive each time, though that may be because I have a habit of placing my SSD in the very first SATA port on my motherboard with data drives in the following ports.

There are countless other ways out there to set up your partitioning scheme across your drives. The above is just what I use in my system.

Hope this helps!

-J

On 02/17/2016 08:04 PM, agents4jesus at gmail.com<mailto:agents4jesus at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,

Recently, I built my own Desktop computer. I've been using an old HDD and am planning to upgrade to an SSD. Owing to the fact that SSDs are expensive, I am also planning to get a 500GB or 1TB HDD for files. I want to put the OS and a few resource intensive programs (Android Studio, Blender, GIMP, etc) on the SSD, but have my home folder and my files on the HDD.

Is there an easy way to do this? Is this something in the installation process that I can set up?

Thanks,
Tony



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