<div dir="ltr">This bcache does indeed look interesting.. I will investigate further!<br><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 at 22:44 Hubert Chathi <<a href="mailto:hubert@uhoreg.ca">hubert@uhoreg.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:33:21 +0000, CrankyOldBugger <<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com" target="_blank">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>> said:<br>
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> The drive that I replaced, a Samsung 256TB SSD, is still salvageable,<br>
^^^^^<br>
I hope there is a typo there ...<br>
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> My Lenovo laptop came with a 1 TB HDD and a 16gig mSATA. It's almost<br>
> three years old now. I use the mSATA as a swap partition (I have 8<br>
> gig RAM). I think the jury is still out on whether or not you should<br>
> use mSATA as a swap drive, but I had to use it for something. I would<br>
> love to replace the HDD in the laptop with a SSD, for all the reasons<br>
> Chris mentioned. In fact, once I scrape together a few bucks I just<br>
> might pop out the 1TB HDD for a 512 TB SSD, but I'm not sure it will<br>
> be the same Adata.<br>
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Have you looked into bcache or dm-cache? I haven't tried either of them<br>
myself, but they look interesting.<br>
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Hubert<br>
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