Multiple drives

[Michael Butash]

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?
>