I use a Dell 9020m Micro-PC as “terminal-server” for development. It has a small SSD, but also a larger HDD attached.
I’ve created two simple bash-scripts that help move projects I currently don’t work on from SSD to HDD. They add symlink to the “off-boarded” location so that I can basically keep on working on them, but with slower I/O. When I want to work on the project again (and need the I/O speed), the project is moved back to the SSD (“on-boarding”).
To make re-off-boarding fast, the on-boarded state is kept on the HDD and re-used when off-boarding the project again.
These two simple scripts have been released under MIT license on GitHub.
