On 24/01/2019 09:01, Doychin Bondzhev wrote:
Many small installations are on hdd.
My first reaction was that HDD is still the more common base for systems, and for large volumes of data I think that will be the case for a while yet? But I've been adding SSD's as the boot disk on my servers for some time now and invariably the LIVE database IS running from that with backup to the larger HDD stores.
However I'm fighting a problem this morning with the SSD drive on one of the servers which for various reasons now has btrfs on it because openSUSE think it's the bees knees ... and it's now throwing errors as has happened before on other upgrades. Personally I don't find smearing the OS across all your hard disks particularly safe and I lost a few days work on a previous btrfs crash. I LIKE that I can take an 8Tb disk of data (OK videos) unmount it and remount it on another machine, and the disk with my websites and databases on is similarly transportable if a machine goes down ... and can run from the HDD if needs be.
So the key question is not so much the performance of SSD over HDD but rather just what IS the best file system as well? Is it better to keep specialist elements like databases on their own drives?
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