Multiple drives

[Stephen Partington]

I really want to try bcache. Super slick looking.

On Monday, June 6, 2016, Stephen M <smelheim85 at gmail.com> 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 <toddc at azloco.com <javascript:;>>
> 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 <cryptworks at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>>
> > 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
> <javascript:;>> 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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> >> Stephen
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Stephen
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