I really want to try bcache. Super slick looking.<br><br>On Monday, June 6, 2016, Stephen M <<a href="mailto:smelheim85@gmail.com">smelheim85@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">These are all great suggestions that I will be looking into. I am<br>
planning on moving my mother board to a new tower because it has 4 HDD<br>
bays. I wanted to get more experience with SSD and was looking for<br>
options of ppl I know and trust. Not to say going out to google I<br>
can't find ppl like that but being a part of a community helps. I was<br>
thinking if you want things that aren't going to change on a separate<br>
disk would that also include swap since you don't really change<br>
anything on it. I understand the need for swap but I don't see it<br>
changing very much. I was thinking about boot but that changes allot.<br>
As for usr doesn't it change when you make changes to the userspace?<br>
Could be wrong but just putting it out there.<br>
<br>
On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Todd Cole <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'toddc@azloco.com')">toddc@azloco.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I recently did a laptop with a hybrid drive since it showed up as two<br>
> separate drives I put root on ssd for speed and home on spinning disk. While<br>
> I have nothing to compare it to except the old windows install I have to say<br>
> it felt very fast. On a desktop or laptop I use owncloud to back up share<br>
> data between my computers. I might also consider raid0 stripe if both<br>
> drives were small it would give faster read writes and act more like a ssd<br>
> speeds and larger total disk size. Two disks could be a good idea on some<br>
> servers to limit security issues access to root. At least we have lots of<br>
> great options but best is better determined by individual computer use,<br>
> needs and hardware software on a case by case<br>
><br>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Stephen Partington <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'cryptworks@gmail.com')">cryptworks@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Woo thanks for the tip. I will have to explore this.<br>
>><br>
>> PS i have to say The Samsung Evo 850's have a 5 year warranty and seem to<br>
>> be working really well. I beat mine up and it is still trucking along.<br>
>><br>
>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Michael Butash <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'michael@butash.net')">michael@butash.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> I'd second if the same size doing raid-1, I do this for every client I<br>
>>> have anymore, especially when using SSD's that seem to drop like flies. I<br>
>>> do this for laptops too when an option, I just make sure to buy laptops that<br>
>>> can take two. More common it seems with the advent of msata or m2 drives.<br>
>>><br>
>>> I'm not a fan of splitting file systems between disparate disks (one or<br>
>>> the other dies, there went half your os), unless you're just creating a dump<br>
>>> drive for stuff like movies and such on a spinner.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Apple isn't exactly doing magic with their use of a ssd as a cache, as<br>
>>> usual they just sell it as such and make it brainless for users to take<br>
>>> advantage. Look up dm-cache, flashcache, or bcache for the same thing under<br>
>>> linux, where dm-cache is built into newer kernels as part of lvm (maybe<br>
>>> bcache too).<br>
>>><br>
>>> -mb<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> On 06/05/2016 11:34 PM, Stephen M wrote:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I'm trying to find documentation to tell me whats the best setup when<br>
>>>> partitioning 2 drives. Does it make since to have root and boot on<br>
>>>> one drive and then everything else on a 2nd drive?<br>
>>>><br>
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