On 1 February 2011 11:37, John Robinson <john.robinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 30/01/2011 12:12, Mathias BurÃn wrote: > [...] >> >> Ah, good point. The sda is a 60GB SSD, I should definitely move that >> to the PCI-E card, as it doesn't do heavy IO (just small random r/w). >> Then i can have 4 RAID HDDs on the onboard ctrl, and 2 on the PCI-E >> shared with the SSD. If the SSD is idle then I should get ideal >> throughputs. > > Hmm, if you have an SSD, you might look at using bcache to speed up write > access to your array. On the other hand, with only one SSD you potentially > lose redundancy - do SSDs crash and burn like hard drives do? > > If the SSD is only being used as a boot/OS drive - so near idle in normal > use - I'd swap it for a cheap small laptop hard drive and find somewhere > else to put the SSD to better use. > > Cheers, > > John. > > Thanks for the input. My initial question was basically, "where's my bottleneck". The SSD is hosting the OS + an XBMC database :-) so I can't use it for anything else. // Mathias -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html