[Colchester] SSDs are cheap but what if you're even cheaper?

[Jai Jordan]

But you can get a 256gb solid state disk for as low as £31 on Amazon.

That's only £4 more than you paid in total for the three SSDs and you'd end
up with 76GB extra.

All on a single SSD!

On Sun, 25 Aug 2019 at 22:06, Martyn via Colchester <
colchester at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> Um!
>
> No!
>
> Thank you. 8)
>
>
> On 25/08/2019 22:02, Wayland Sothcott via Colchester wrote:
> > Yeah I'm a cheapskate. I bought some SATA III SSDs for £9 each on ebay!
> > The problem is they are 'only' 60GB. You need to combine with a HDD
> > (spinning rust)
> >
> > Here's how to use them.
> > 1. Install Linux flat with no partitioning onto the SSD (ok yeah it
> > makes boot and swap but everything is in /)
> > 2. If building a PC then you move /home onto it and then mount it as
> > /home
> > 3. If building a server then it's the same except you do it with /var
> >
> > There are tutorials how to do this.
> >
> > There is a different way to use the SSD to speed up your computer: bcache
> > This allows you to use a partition or your whole SSD to cache your
> > HDD. The problem I found was you must format your HDD partition using
> > the bcache file system.
> > This means it's a total arse if you need to read that hard drive in a
> > different computer because your OS has corrupted.
> >
> > Anyone here interested in Windows may like to know about
> > elitebytes.com MaxVeloSSD.
> > You can stuff a small cheap SSD into an existing Windows machine that
> > boots from an HDD and add MaxVeloCache and instantly get SSD boot and
> > program loading speeds. I've experimented with this and took a PC that
> > reports 70 second boot time and 7 second MS Word loading and getting
> > 17 second boot time and 1.5 second MS word loading.
> >
> > The Linux software is free but the Windows version costs £7. However
> > the Windows version gives you instant results but the Linux version
> > requires a new build.
> >
>
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