[mdlug] seek some suggestions for installing linux

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 21:26 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> Darwin Weyh wrote:
> > I'd get a HD-USB adapter like this to connect to the Original HD...
> > http://microcenter.com/product/285941/EZ-Connect_USB_to_SATA-IDE_Adapter
> > When I do my next new laptop before I even boot it and have to agree to the
> > Microsoft license, I'm gonna replace it with a 64Gig SSD drive and install
> > my distro on it.  I have a server with TB+ HD storage and also use the
> > cloud storages available.
> SSD is nice and fast for the OS executables and config files, but
> I would really avoid having things like /tmp, /var/log, /var/spool,
> /var/tmp and /home on an SSD.

Nah. SSD is *awesome* exactly for /tmp, /var/log, /var/spool, your
database journal, etc.... Why pay for performance and then not use it.
Or swap on SSD.

The old you-will-burn-it-out things is false for almost all cases, your
laptop will likely die first.