This way, you boot faster into Linux and you have plenty of disk space for your personal documents and downloads. You keep the root (and thus swap and boot) on SSD and you put your Home directory on HDD. You’ll have plenty of disk space, but Linux will boot slower, and you won’t get the SSD advantage. This could work if you have 180 GB or 200 GB or more on SSD but won’t work with 120 GB SSD. You’ll get full advantage of SSD speed, but then you will have only a limited disk space. Now, if you want to dual boot on a system with two disks, you may get confused about where should you be installing Linux. 1 TB SSD would increase the system price a lot and hence this particular combination of SSD and HDD. This is usually the scene with gaming laptops where large disk space matters for storing game files but SSD is required for faster boot and computing experience. It comes with a SSD with limited disk space like 120 GB and an additional HDD with 500 GB or 1 TB disk space.
Here’s the scenario: you got a new computer. Why? Because the scenario is slightly different and several It’s FOSS readers have asked questions about this particular scenario. Recently, I also wrote about dual booting on a Bitlocker encrypted Windows system.Īnd yet here I am talking about it again. Dual booting Ubuntu and Windows is not that complicated and I have covered it in detailed tutorial in the past.
