I have definitely considered more than once about using tape storage, and I
think one day I will buckle under this pressure. I have huge storage needs,
but I digress. This post is about trying to get faster access. Check this out
-- I found this command that can help me quantify how slow things are going:
sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 17184 MB in 1.99 seconds = 8617.86 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 198 MB in 3.02 seconds = 65.65 MB/sec
..Seems darn slow... I do think I may do something like my OS drive is cheap
and small like 64GB to 128GB SSD and my file storage will be on a slower hard
disk. Right now I actually just have a 8TB RAID1 as my main backup. I was
looking at Bcache or caching using a separate flash storage but it seems a
bit fiddly for me. I'm just techy enough to learn this stuff but not techie
enough to be living in the command line 24/7.
Thanks for your thoughtful response.
