d_k_bo, 1 year ago

HDD, which is /home

Spinning rust is slow

Have you tried to either

1. put /home on the SSD and only larger subdirectories on the HDD
2. set eg. XDG_CONFIG_HOME, XDG_CACHE_HOME etc. to a location on the SSD (to improve program startup time)

I have no direct comparison, but I can imagine that this could reduce the performance impact of your HDD.