[kwlug-disc] OT: SSD disks?

[Hubert Chathi]

On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:33:21 +0000, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> said:

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> The drive that I replaced, a Samsung 256TB SSD, is still salvageable,
                                       ^^^^^
I hope there is a typo there ...

> My Lenovo laptop came with a 1 TB HDD and a 16gig mSATA.  It's almost
> three years old now.  I use the mSATA as a swap partition (I have 8
> gig RAM).  I think the jury is still out on whether or not you should
> use mSATA as a swap drive, but I had to use it for something.  I would
> love to replace the HDD in the laptop with a SSD, for all the reasons
> Chris mentioned.  In fact, once I scrape together a few bucks I just
> might pop out the 1TB HDD for a 512 TB SSD, but I'm not sure it will
> be the same Adata.

Have you looked into bcache or dm-cache?  I haven't tried either of them
myself, but they look interesting.

Hubert