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so 4 of those would cost £124 and for that you could buy a 1TB NVMe.
But then 4 would cost £496.<br>
<br>
Compare the £496 to speed up the 4 computers compared to the £36 I
spent. <br>
Because who wants a measly 240GB (not 256 since you always leave
some blank)? It's not going to go much faster with a 240GB cache
drive than a 60.<br>
<br>
A 240GB SSD is a waste of money since it's smaller than the hard
drive it's replacing. The idea is SSD performance without the
hundreds of pounds price bill.<br>
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If you've got the money you should replace your entire system with
one that can accept a 2TB NVMe drive. The question is how to get top
performance without spending that? The answer is to keep your 1TB or
2TB HDD and judiciously use an SSD to make the system faster. <br>
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<div>But you can get a 256gb solid state disk for as low as £31
on Amazon.</div>
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<div>That's only £4 more than you paid in total for the three
SSDs and you'd end up with 76GB extra.</div>
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<div>All on a single SSD!</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 25 Aug 2019 at 22:06,
Martyn via Colchester <<a
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0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Um!<br>
<br>
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" moz-do-not-send="true">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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