On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Frank Cox 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 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
> a
> raid (with the ove
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 S
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
prefer
In article <20120413155934.fcdaa9db.thea...@melvilletheatre.com>,
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 tha
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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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 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 sy
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 termin
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 wo
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
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 tha
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
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