[Trisquel-users] Using USB 3 to Speed Up A Slow Hard Disk

[davidpgil]

I recently learned that while SSDs are very fast as hard disks, they die  
extremely quickly. I have hard disks that are going strong 20 years later,  
but this SSD I had installed lasted for less than 5 years.

I recently replaced my SSD with a 5400 rpm drive and the slowdown is stark!  
Much slower read speeds especially. I was thinking I might be able to use a  
cheap USB 3 thumb drive to improve speeds of accessing my files.

What is the best way to go about doing this? Do I just move my swap  
partitiion to an always connected USB 3 drive?