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

[Wayland Sothcott]

so 4 of those would cost £124 and for that you could buy a 1TB NVMe. But 
then 4 would cost £496.

Compare the £496 to speed up the 4 computers compared to the £36 I spent.
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.

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.

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.

On 25/08/2019 22:10, Jai Jordan via Colchester wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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 <http://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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