What to do with spare 64GB SSD drive?

Adrian5 · 02-03-2019, 11:42 AM

I recently bought a new "secondary" SSD to be used (mostly for Linux containers, VirtualBox images) aside from my main one where my Linux installations reside. My old "secondary" has now lost its purpose but is still good so I'd like to keep using it somehow.

Do you folks have any suggestions on how one might make good use of it? A way to use it as a filesystem cache maybe? I already have /tmp mounted on a tmpfs, as I have no shortage of RAM.

Suggestions welcome, thanks!

pan64 · 02-03-2019, 11:46 AM

64 GB is enough to install an OS onto it. If you have for example two or more OSs.
Or make it as a data storage and put the most frequently used files into it (like developer IDE or video editing tools or whatever you use).

ArfaSmif · 02-03-2019, 06:58 PM

Donate it to me?

Timothy Miller · 02-03-2019, 08:57 PM

I used mine as a /home drive. Instead of just a separate partition, I moved it to a whole separate drive.

ondoho · 02-04-2019, 02:04 AM

just more fast storage.
what needs to be fast?

fwiw, media (video) does not need fast storage; the playback program loads chunks of what it needs into memory and works with that.

games surely benefit from fast storage.

and there's certain programs that typically are installed to /opt, and they tend to be huge.
so maybe /opt could go to the old SSD.

fatmac · 02-04-2019, 06:09 AM

Sounds like you need a Raspberry Pi to go with it.....

jefro · 02-04-2019, 09:25 PM

I'd say swapboost if you do need ram otherwise I guess you could add it to ZFS or BTRFS or LVM.

ondoho · 02-05-2019, 01:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fatmac

Sounds like you need a Raspberry Pi to go with it.....

briliant idea!

Adrian5 · 02-05-2019, 09:04 AM

Thanks for the good ideas! I hadn't even considered using it for directories beneath my root, I think that's what I'm gonna go with.

BW-userx · 02-05-2019, 10:42 AM

sell it on Ebay ...