Michael,
I found this blog post, but no date, http://blog.miketoscano.com/?p=307. It
seems the Ubuntu installer can be used to set up raid1 and lvm. I was
surprised at the blogger used lvm and the entire drive for /, but to each
his own. I assume one could still use the Ubuntu installer and add so
Not to discourage your learning, but here's how I build my ssd's on both
my desktop and laptops now universally (assuming I can cram 2 disks
in). This I've built over several years of trial and error with ssd's
and various os. I made a variation for uefi booting too my asus that
wouldn't do le
Raid 1 is simply giving you redundancy. When, not if, it breaks,
theoretically both shouldn't fail. I have heard of instances where
masses of drives in a dc all purchased the same time began all failing,
taking out clusters as more than 1 disk was dying without any hot
standby, etc.
LVM is
Michael,
Thanks again for your comments, they are very helpful. I have been googling
RAID1 and LVM and finding lots of good information.
I really like your idea of a RAID1 for the two SSDs. Does it matter if one
is msata and one is not?
I am trying to decide on the merits of using LVM with the R
I really never hit any io constraints on disks honestly since using
ssd's. I watch gkrellm like a hawk and tend to notice if something is
amiss, and disks are never it, unless one dies. I tend to abuse my
system with 32db of ram and chrome and firefox each have seen using 10gb
of ram each, no
Michael,
Great info...Thanks!
Are there any performance (or other issues) between a raid1with two 1tb
msata ssds and rsync between one 1tb msata ssd and 7200 rpm 1tb hdd? I like
the idea of raid1 with two ssds, but not sure if I am ready to buy 2 1tb
ssds. And yes, I really need a 1 tb drive.
On 09/02/2014 10:23 AM, Mark Phillips wrote:
I am looking at a new Linux laptop, and I have the option of a mSata
SSD drive or a conventional drive. I am considering a 1 TB Samsung 840
EVO mSata SSD for the OS and all my partitions.
1. Are there any reasons not to use a SSD for the full disk,
The main thing that i do for SSD's is remove Swap/Pagefile upping my system
memory to give me wiggle room. (8+) and make sure that trim is active.
On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Mark Phillips
wrote:
> Ed,
>
> There are a lot of optimization articles out there. The more current ones
> say to ig
Ed,
There are a lot of optimization articles out there. The more current ones
say to ignore the older ones and just use trim. All the older optimization
suggestions seem to have been incorporated into the drives in some way,
according to the authors. I can't find the article that made these
pronou
Some additional interesting links:
https://wiki.debian.org/SSDOptimization
https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/ssd
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Jon Kettenhofen wrote:
> IMO, get the SSD but also install the hard drive, if the laptop allows it
> (otherwise try iCloud? :-) ), tha
IMO, get the SSD but also install the hard drive, if the laptop allows
it (otherwise try iCloud? :-) ), that will act as a backup. Separately,
neither may be more reliable than the other but you will be safer.
And faster.
So back up frequently.
For even faster *desktop* performance, shell out
If you have the option of mSATA and Sata in general i would use the mSATA
for pretty much everything, and then a hybrid or std drive for the 1TB
volume. The system will be very fast and snappy, and then you can save a
few bills on your general storage. I have been really keen on the new
Crucial SSD
I am currently use my ssd as the full drive on my laptop. A couple of
things you need to know and the biggest one is to make sure that you are
doing TRIM on all of the partitions (I think you add "disgard" to the
options portions for the partitions in /etc/fstab). Regarding stability and
reliabilit
Consider a hybrid drive, made by Seagate.
They have a cache (4, 8, or 16GB) that acts like an SSD, and they say you get
90% of the performance of SSDs. I’ve used them in the past on Mac Mini’s and
they really make a HUGE difference in performane over a regular drive.
Apple’s hybrid drives are s
I am looking at a new Linux laptop, and I have the option of a mSata SSD
drive or a conventional drive. I am considering a 1 TB Samsung 840 EVO
mSata SSD for the OS and all my partitions.
1. Are there any reasons not to use a SSD for the full disk, as opposed to
just for the OS? Other than saving
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