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Author: Stephen Partington
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Multiple drives
I do have to say the Apple Fusion Drive implementation is fascinating. The
pairing of an SSD to a Spinning HDD in software and then moving unused data
to the HDD and leaving the SSD as your primary device. Having used it i do
have to say it makes for a very perky Experience for a 5400rpm 1T storage
drive.

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 10:53 AM, Brian Cluff <> wrote:

> If they are the same size, I would make them a RAID1 and give yourself a
> little peace of mind that your data is safer.
>
> These days drives are so big that splitting your partitions, no matter how
> you make the split will leave one drive virtually unused.
>
> If you don't care about your data being safe, then put both drives into an
> LVM (or RAID 0) and then you can slice and dice your space any way they you
> want.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
> 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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