On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote:
There is a significant mortality rate with consumer grade SSDs. If you
are going to use one, pair it up in a software RAID1 with some matching
partitions on the hard drive and then adjust the RAID to read
In article 20120413155934.fcdaa9db.thea...@melvilletheatre.com,
Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote:
I just ordered a new machine that's destined to become a Centos 6 application
server for a publishing company, and decided to get one with a 40GB SSD as
well
as a standard hard drive.
On 04/13/2012 06:00 PM, aurfalien wrote:
Oh yea, sorry. Yep you got it, the OCZs.
There is a significant mortality rate with consumer grade SSDs. If you
are going to use one, pair it up in a software RAID1 with some matching
partitions on the hard drive and then adjust the RAID to read
On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 07:00:37 -0700
Benjamin Franz wrote:
There is a significant mortality rate with consumer grade SSDs. If you
are going to use one, pair it up in a software RAID1 with some matching
partitions on the hard drive and then adjust the RAID to read
preferentially from the SSD.
On 4/15/12, Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote:
I'm just thinking... I wonder if it would be possible to somehow replicate
the
OS on both the SSD and the hard drive, such that you could just change the
boot
device in the bios to point to one or the other. Which wouldn't exactly be
I just ordered a new machine that's destined to become a Centos 6 application
server for a publishing company, and decided to get one with a 40GB SSD as well
as a standard hard drive.
I'm thinking that I can put most of the operating system on that drive and have
the home directories and whatnot
On 04/13/12 2:59 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
I just ordered a new machine that's destined to become a Centos 6 application
server for a publishing company, and decided to get one with a 40GB SSD as
well
as a standard hard drive.
I'm thinking that I can put most of the operating system on that
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:27:16 -0700
John R Pierce wrote:
a server typically makes very little access of the system drive once the
OS and services are loaded... sure, the boot time will be hugely sped
up, but how often do you reboot a production server?
This is an application server with a
On 04/13/12 3:42 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
This is an application server with a bunch of terminals that hang off of it.
The idea is to have instant on for stuff like Gimp, Scribus, Inkscape,
LibreOffice, and whatnot which I'm thinking would live on the SSD. The
data files, caches and so on would
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:50:19 -0700
John R Pierce wrote:
ah, i would call that a 'terminal server', thats quite a different
workload then. I was thinking of 'application server' as something
like Tomcat, providing webservices.
I thought about calling it that, but when I think of a terminal
On Apr 13, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
I just ordered a new machine that's destined to become a Centos 6 application
server for a publishing company, and decided to get one with a 40GB SSD as
well
as a standard hard drive.
I'm thinking that I can put most of the operating system
On 04/13/12 5:18 PM, aurfalien wrote:
Works fine, stick with the Intel X series, not the M.
he said $100, so I'm guessing a consumer grade SSD like a oCZ, etc.
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On Apr 13, 2012, at 8:28 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 04/13/12 5:18 PM, aurfalien wrote:
Works fine, stick with the Intel X series, not the M.
he said $100, so I'm guessing a consumer grade SSD like a oCZ, etc.
Oh yea, sorry.
Yep you got it, the OCZs.
- aurf
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