Multiple drives

[Stephen Partington]

Woo thanks for the tip. I will have to explore this.

PS i have to say The Samsung Evo 850's have a 5 year warranty and seem to
be working really well. I beat mine up and it is still trucking along.

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:

> I'd second if the same size doing raid-1, I do this for every client I
> have anymore, especially when using SSD's that seem to drop like flies.  I
> do this for laptops too when an option, I just make sure to buy laptops
> that can take two.  More common it seems with the advent of msata or m2
> drives.
>
> I'm not a fan of splitting file systems between disparate disks (one or
> the other dies, there went half your os), unless you're just creating a
> dump drive for stuff like movies and such on a spinner.
>
> Apple isn't exactly doing magic with their use of a ssd as a cache, as
> usual they just sell it as such and make it brainless for users to take
> advantage.  Look up dm-cache, flashcache, or bcache for the same thing
> under linux, where dm-cache is built into newer kernels as part of lvm
> (maybe bcache too).
>
> -mb
>
>
> On 06/05/2016 11:34 PM, Stephen M wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to find documentation to tell me whats the best setup when
>> partitioning 2 drives.  Does it make since to have root and boot on
>> one drive and then everything else on a 2nd drive?
>>
>>
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