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 system on that drive and have
> the home directories and whatnot on the regular hard drive. Are there any
> pitfalls lying in wait for an unwary person like me when setting this thing up?
>
> Further, I suspect that if that thing rattles along like I think it should I'll
> probably want to add a SSD to my own desktop machine here. Since this computer
> is already set up with the default Centos 6 partitioning system on a single hard
> drive (/boot, /home and /) is there an easy way to transfer the OS to the SSD or
> would I be better off reformatting this thing and starting over from scratch if
> I want to have a SSD for my boot and OS drive?
I use this setup (albeit a bigger SSD) on a few systems.
Some workstations for my power users and some of my servers.
Works fine, stick with the Intel X series, not the M.
Although there new gear looks killer;
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/ssd-910-series-specification.html
Plugs direct into a PCIe slot, pretty shweeeet.
We need the bandwidth so this may be over kill for you, but still its cool.
- aurf
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