| From: Joe Zeff <j...@zeff.us> | On 04/28/2014 10:44 AM, Javier Perez wrote: | > | > Is there anything I should know I am not taking into consideration? | | Putting your OS onto a 10 GB partition on that drive will take up about 0.5% | of its capacity. It will also be much safer than having it on an external | drive, especially if it's a flash drive.
I agree. I always reserve two partitions to be /: one for the current system, and one for the next system. That way I can install a new system without losing the old one. Seems much safer to me. Oh, and I allocate 20G per / to account for future code-bloat. Surely overkill on a server. I don't really know RAID best-practices these days. Big disks are so big that there is a real chance of losing a working drive while rebuilding a degraded array. And manufacturers of consumer drives try to make them NOT work in RAID so as to force business folks to buy more expensive drives (google for TLER). When a disk fails, the array becomes degraded. The redundancy is gone. The first thing to do: replace the bad disk and rebuild the array. Or try to rebuild with the old drive (the error might be transient). Rebuilding can take a large fraction of a day with 3T disks. During that time, a second failure kills you: no redundancy. The fundamental problem is the flawed belief that RAID is a kind of backup. When you get down to it, it isn't backup. So ask yourself: in a home server, just what does RAID give me? Are you really bottlenecked for speed in a way that RAID will improve? Perhaps RAID can help with High Availability (and perhaps not) -- is that what you are hoping for? Just don't think of it as backup. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
