wiped disk - no longer bootable

[Ralf Mardorf]

Ok, my replies regarding cache and SSDs sound nonreflective.

What I tried to point out.

Get a case or docking station for your HDD and make it a backup drive.

Use SSDs only for the machine. If you want to improve something by
cache, then just a huge amount of RAM might make sense. RAM without any
freakish settings, since Linux by default does use RAM in a smart way,
e.g. as cache.

Btw. you hopefully don't use a swap on your HDD ;). In practise even
swap on the SSD should be completely untouched.