From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 896DF1381F3 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 10:28:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 95C7FE08F9; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 10:28:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f44.google.com (mail-wg0-f44.google.com [74.125.82.44]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5FE03E0818 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 10:28:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f44.google.com with SMTP id m15so4537118wgh.11 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 03:28:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=2PHlfZoG/HJMO2+NSr3aLCVlyPEHqM2KbDUpoIpbI9o=; b=HMw0jg6SM3/4Wptpa60L2QmirVRYO7LZOtLeaG/1Ql/bDnhQc6YvXbf4S84uUbENlu zUTnx+EuNsdPcdiWGAu+KzxAFZh144rcuCi0kXSfX7KLpkUn8RzKGnhIz5gdRhcdZMiH gzXloT0xjkf60JW0C4+XrKpeflMdsvn7xO0lLKsk5+h5JO/5GV3gc7PGhvuiiVuQhspK Qdwg5jhzDKISQ+Vdh06tS5BPF/qg0jeEiSE1wdT+/0MYDYXBJ4XBisOE125jhYKeFDUI qCupDTnnHWjjrvi/MPm0fp/A+Ni1OT1fP2Fno7XQejfpzPQbEjrhlCeEXPY3sq6AvD94 6I5Q== X-Received: by 10.194.120.7 with SMTP id ky7mr14317680wjb.89.1374316109031; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 03:28:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (196-210-102-104.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.102.104]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id o10sm28122532wiz.5.2013.07.20.03.28.26 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 20 Jul 2013 03:28:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <51EA65BC.1050605@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 12:26:04 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130709 Thunderbird/17.0.7 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration References: <20130718182232.5c1301ce@acme7.acmenet> <51E8E30E.20906@gmail.com> <20130719114234.332ff09e@acme7.acmenet> <51E96CBB.4080300@gmail.com> <20130719200018.474e06af@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <51E9C5D2.1040108@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <51E9C5D2.1040108@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 019f83f5-5572-4bb7-b32f-85aa472bc615 X-Archives-Hash: 6c57ef7ca4e83a047d12d10513496981 On 20/07/2013 01:03, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:43:39 -0500, Dale wrote: >> >>> My /home is over 1Tb, that is Tb too. I'm not buying >>> one big enough for all that. >> 1Tb is only 125GB, well within the capacity of current SSDs :P >> >> Switching to an SSD, particularly on a laptop where you can't add a >> second drive, really helps you decide how much of the content of ~ you >> really need. >> >> > > Mine is mostly videos and some smaller amount of pics. 1 Tb is 125Gb? > 1Tb is 1,000Gb or so. I would also be concerned about the cost of one > that large too. > > Confused. Neil is jerking your chain :-) Remember, he's an Englishman and they don't do slapstick humour, they do clever and subtle humour. You typed "b" when you intended to type "B" -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com