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  • Msata and ssd, they are both sata and ssd.

    Maybe one is faster because its newer or so, but there shouldn’t be much difference. Its not nvme, its msata.

    I would slap the two disks in Linux software raid1 to leverage drive failure and use an external disk for backups, maybe over the network (local or remote).

    If you don’t want to waste 50% of your space, use one disk as home, the other as root&boot&swap (is swap even a good idea? Maybe zram). Any extra space on the other dunnow… Mybe additional home space?







  • Ha, home has been traditionally always on a separate drive. That’s the reason why root user has the home under /root and not /home/root, so that it can login even if the home drive didn’t Mount.

    As a curiosity, even /usr was traditionally on a separate drive and that’s why critical binaries and libraries where under /bin and /lib while all non critical stuff under /usr. It is called “split-usr”.

    Nowadays /usr is always on the same drive as root, and we moved to a “merge-usr” approach where stuff under /lib and /bin is a symlink into /usr/lib and /usr/bin.

    Because when HDDs where 50mb in size, even that small binary file counted as big :)