Originally Posted by
peterb
Ten days useage has been atypical though as there was an operating system to install plus all the updates and applications, so that should be a one off.
I have moved the swap file to the hard drives, and I think I'll move the more dynamic directories to there as well. That will include the mail folders, and possible the database files for the web server, although they are more read from than write to, so maybe not such an issue. Log files are the other area where a lot of writes may take place, so they could be moved.
I'll probably just make a director like var1 on the hard drive and symlink from the original location, rather go completely off piste with the configuration.
But then 5 years isn't bad, my existing hard drives haven't lasted that long.