On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 6:57 PM ToddAndMargo via users
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On 2020-04-22 16:24, Roger Heflin wrote:
One question, it your os install on a spinning disk or on a ssd?
depending on how much a given rpm is touching it could take a long
time for some installs on spinning disks. I gave up and just about
all of the machines I have have a 64gb ssd or larger just so the
upgrades are nice and fast.
Hi Roger,
Disclaimer, I now only sell Samsung SSD drives. Been
burned too many times by cheaper ones. Had to give
away too much free labor and free parts. Now
all my customers are on Samsung and I no longer
have that economic drain to worry about.
This particular server uses two 2GB mechanical drives
in a RSTe (e for enterprise) RAID 1 configuration on an
Intel C236 chipset
At the time I designed the server, larger SATA SSD's
had not reached my desired reliability in RSTe
RAID 1 (Samsung have great ones for that now)
and NVMe were small and terribly expensive.
I have asked the customer to let me remove the
mechanical drives as they are getting close to
the end of their lifespan and replace then with
a single Samsung NVMe. Samsung's NVMe drives are
now super reliable and the server is no longer
mission critical, but only "necessary". And they
are assiduous about backing up (dump/restore script
by me).
Has the server remained mission critical, I would
have recommended Samsung's SATA SSD that are
meant for RAID.
When I do installs from a USB3 flash drive, I
am still tickled over the 10 minute installs.
Then again, Fedora to be my all time favorite
operating system.
-T
On 2020-04-22 17:49, Roger Heflin wrote:
> I have only bought Samsung or Crucial(micron) (prior to samsung really
> being serious about ssd's), for home. Work buys from a large
> enterprise vendor, who sources things from various ssd makers.
You can really have quality issues doing that.
> I have been putting a small unmirrored ssd in for OS and then whatever
> else for the other one if you need larger size and cheaper, but can
> tolerate slower, at home that is.
>
> Some of the rpm installs were taking way too long on spinning disks
> for me to even like at home.
That works in theory, but I have only found one customer
that it worked out for, As a rule I put everything on
the same drive. Windows serves are especially a pain
when they do a C: and a D: partition.
My customer and I have lost all interest in mechanical drives.
I have not had a bad Samsung drive yet.
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