On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:45:43 +0100 Tobias Ellinghaus <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am Montag, 17. März 2014, 16:33:50 schrieb Colin Adams: > > My 6-year-old laptop has finally given up the ghost, so I'm looking for a > > new one. > > > > What I'm currently considering is a: > > > > Lenovo Ideapad U310 13-inch Ultrabook (Graphite) - (Intel Core i3 3217U > > 1.8GHz Processor, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD + 24GB SSD, Windows 8) > > > > Of course, I shall promptly remove windows and put Fedora 20 on it instead. > > > > My principle use of darktable is on my desktop machine, but when i go away > > on holiday, i use my latop for storage (I dump my cards to it every > > evening). Then I will use the lighttable feature to look over my days > > photos. > > > > So it's nice to have a 500GB drive (my old machine had only 80MB, and I > > once filled it up with two days left of the holiday. Luckily I was able to > > rely on my card for the last 2 days, but sometimes I fill it up in less > > than 2 hours). But what to do with the 24GB SSD? My first thought is to use > > it for a swap file, but if there is some feature of darktable that could > > exploit it, I'd consider that instead. > > I'd put the system on the SSD and /home/ on the HDD – makes booting much > faster. > > Tobias, having such a setup, too. Better use HDD only for big data like photos and videos, /home contains a lot of small files (configs, web cache, DT database) besides that, putting it on SSD too makes system faster. Also that way HDD can be in sleep mode most of the time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
