SSD vs (external) HDD.... :(

They have TB SSD's you know..

@ScribeOfGoD Yes, they do (Samsung even released a 2 TB 850 Evo a while ago), but we've gotta wait a few more years until prices per unit of storage of HDDs and SSDs come close.

@ScribeOfGoD Yes... but I installed this years ago when my HDD crashed... this was expensive back then.
Also since it's the primary drive... I would have to reinstall EVERYTHING :(

I like to set up SSD as a cache for a bunch of a TB HDDs using lvm. It feels like SSD whilst it costs much less.
SSHD is not an option. The trick is to have SSD sized 5 to 10 percent of HDD

If you don't want to spend that much, use various hdd and mount a raid 10
If you use 4 or more, performance improvement will be evident

@lig1 but the bottle-neck are all the apps that are running it seems. They need to access the their resources on disk... do disk needs to be fast.

@allanx2000 having cache 10% size gives you 99% cache hit for most use cases

@lig1 Isn't that just RAM though? RAM is fine, 8GB (strange I always thought it was only 4GB lol) and unchanged. After switching to SSD, everything just became so much faster.

@allanx2000 I say that having 100gb SSD cache before 1tb hdd gives you the feel of 1tb SSD.

@allanx2000 buy a bigger one and clone your system 😊

@Sarcaxxo *looks at username* Is that' supposed to be sarcasm?

Any I have a laptop... too hard... and it's old so guess not really worth it...

Guess it's not as bad as what happens at work. PROD database server runs out of space every few months... need to do a full rebuild and resync.... MongoDB doesn't know how to shrink itself after deleting a lot of documents....

@allanx2000
Acronis? Best backup+cloning program I've ever seen

@agentwolf44 well other problem is where do I store it/backup to?