I have a Lenovo IdeaPad Z580 laptop and I want to replace the DVD drive with a 16GB SSD drive. Now I have just 2 partitions on my hard drive ( / and /home), after adding the SSD drive I want to use it like the current partition mounted in / and my HDD like the current partition mounted in /home. Is it possible? Has somebody tried this method to use Ubuntu?
How to Add a Second Hard Drive to a Laptop
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A swap partition on your SSD will let you wake up faster from hibernation (aka "suspend to disk") as compared to swap on a hard drive. But given the incredibly fast boot time of Ubuntu when booting from SSD a wake up from hibernation may be slower than a reboot.
If you do not hibernate you may never need to swap at all.
Only in case you often have very many RAM intensive applications running in parallel, your system may eventually use swap. Then a swap on SSD will be somewhat faster than a swap on a hard drive. Still there is no need to worry about wearing of your SSD from extensive swapping.
If not used for hibernation you can alway add a swap partition or swap on file later:
This could be related to the HDD caddy you use.
Please see if it has a button or a switch, in order to change the state of the caddy.
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I have a second drive in an old tower, with
/and theswap fileon a forty gig/dev/sdaand/homeon a 300 gig/dev/sdb. Works fine. (It's a salvaged system pieced together from scraps.) However, a second hard drive on a laptop would be a fearsome drain on your battery.