<div dir="ltr"><div>But you can get a 256gb solid state disk for as low as £31 on Amazon.</div><div><br></div><div>That's only £4 more than you paid in total for the three SSDs and you'd end up with 76GB extra.</div><div><br></div><div>All on a single SSD!</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 25 Aug 2019 at 22:06, Martyn via Colchester <<a href="mailto:colchester@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">colchester@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Um!<br>
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No!<br>
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Thank you. 8)<br>
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On 25/08/2019 22:02, Wayland Sothcott via Colchester wrote:<br>
> Yeah I'm a cheapskate. I bought some SATA III SSDs for £9 each on ebay!<br>
> The problem is they are 'only' 60GB. You need to combine with a HDD <br>
> (spinning rust)<br>
><br>
> Here's how to use them.<br>
> 1. Install Linux flat with no partitioning onto the SSD (ok yeah it <br>
> makes boot and swap but everything is in /)<br>
> 2. If building a PC then you move /home onto it and then mount it as <br>
> /home<br>
> 3. If building a server then it's the same except you do it with /var<br>
><br>
> There are tutorials how to do this.<br>
><br>
> There is a different way to use the SSD to speed up your computer: bcache<br>
> This allows you to use a partition or your whole SSD to cache your <br>
> HDD. The problem I found was you must format your HDD partition using <br>
> the bcache file system.<br>
> This means it's a total arse if you need to read that hard drive in a <br>
> different computer because your OS has corrupted.<br>
><br>
> Anyone here interested in Windows may like to know about <br>
> <a href="http://elitebytes.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">elitebytes.com</a> MaxVeloSSD.<br>
> You can stuff a small cheap SSD into an existing Windows machine that <br>
> boots from an HDD and add MaxVeloCache and instantly get SSD boot and <br>
> program loading speeds. I've experimented with this and took a PC that <br>
> reports 70 second boot time and 7 second MS Word loading and getting <br>
> 17 second boot time and 1.5 second MS word loading.<br>
><br>
> The Linux software is free but the Windows version costs £7. However <br>
> the Windows version gives you instant results but the Linux version <br>
> requires a new build.<br>
><br>
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