Multiple drives

[Todd Cole]

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 <cryptworks at gmail.com>
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 <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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