I really want to try bcache. Super slick looking. On Monday, June 6, 2016, Stephen M wrote: > These are all great suggestions that I will be looking into. I am > planning on moving my mother board to a new tower because it has 4 HDD > bays. I wanted to get more experience with SSD and was looking for > options of ppl I know and trust. Not to say going out to google I > can't find ppl like that but being a part of a community helps. I was > thinking if you want things that aren't going to change on a separate > disk would that also include swap since you don't really change > anything on it. I understand the need for swap but I don't see it > changing very much. I was thinking about boot but that changes allot. > As for usr doesn't it change when you make changes to the userspace? > Could be wrong but just putting it out there. > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Todd Cole > > wrote: > > I recently did a laptop with a hybrid drive since it showed up as two > > separate drives I put root on ssd for speed and home on spinning disk. > While > > I have nothing to compare it to except the old windows install I have to > say > > it felt very fast. On a desktop or laptop I use owncloud to back up share > > data between my computers. I might also consider raid0 stripe if both > > drives were small it would give faster read writes and act more like a > ssd > > speeds and larger total disk size. Two disks could be a good idea on some > > servers to limit security issues access to root. At least we have lots of > > great options but best is better determined by individual computer use, > > needs and hardware software on a case by case > > > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Stephen Partington > > > wrote: > >> > >> 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 > 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? > >>>> > >>> > >>> --------------------------------------------------- > >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > >> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > >> > >> Stephen > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------- > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Todd Cole > > Ubuntu Arizona Team > > 4605 S PRIEST DR LOT 3 > > TEMPE AZ 85282-6507 > > toddc@azloco.com > > 602-677-9402 > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > Stephen Melheim > 602-400-7707 > SMelheim85@gmail.com > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen