Split install across SSD and HDD - optimum layout?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 12:17:37 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>I think 4TB SSD's are still quite expensive aren't they?

They are quite expensive, OTOH computers at the times of Commodore,
Atari and Jochen Merz's QL Emulator, let alone a few years before that
time, were way more expensive. Nowadays computers are cheap products.
Compared to the prices of home computers in the 80th and 90th, let alone
before that time, even 4TB SSD capacity are cheap nowadays.

A combination of SSD and HDD is less cost-intensive, but managing a
combination of a SSD for speed and a hard disc for capacity is
illusory, if the 4 TB are needed for daily work or a project. If so, the
HDD is a bottleneck and you gain less, perhaps nothing from the SSD's
speed, no matter how smart you assign directories to the SSD and HDD.

Everything you really need for a project or daily work should be on the
SSD. The HDD should be for archiving seldom needed data. If the data on
the HDD should be needed, you should temporarily copy it to the SSD. If
4 TB are needed all the time, you probably can't avoid getting one
or more SSDs providing 4TB.