SSDs

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

From time to time I am curious about using an SSD for the OS on my
desktop.  Is anyone keeping /, usr, /tmp, /var (and other directories as
appropriate) on an SSD on their desktop?  Is there an improvement in
performance?

The slowest and most annoying thing I do on my desktop is moving files
around - pushing video onto the network, copying large collections of
files, etc.  Whenever I have big IO going on my desktop becomes very
unresponsive.  Would moving that activity to a non-root disk help?
Would an SSD help for general system performance?

Any experiences would be welcome.  Thanks!
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yours,

William

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