12 November 2011
11 November 2011
15 January 2011
Building a new powerful but efficient PC ... Part 3 Storage
It was hinted to me that a great set up for a new PC would be something like this :
small SSD for the OS
2 x 1TB drives, one for /home and the other for /virtual_machines
at the time of building my PC, the cost of SSDs seemed too high and I kept reading stories and articles about the short life of SSDs. Most stories revolved around requiring levelling to stop it writing to the same place over and over as they cannot do that for long.
In the end, I opted for something similar:
500 GB drive for the OS (I struggled to find a drive this small!)
1 TB normal desktop speed (7200 rpm) for /home
1TB eco drive (green) for /virtual_machines
I haven't had a problems so far, they are all very quick drives.
Since reviewing this set up, I would probably recommend a slightly different choice. I would still have the 500GB drive for the OS. But instead of 2 x 1 TB drives, I would recommend 3 x 1 TB drives and set them up in a software RAID. This would help if one of the drives fails, you could just get another and plug in to replace it and not lose any data.
small SSD for the OS
2 x 1TB drives, one for /home and the other for /virtual_machines
at the time of building my PC, the cost of SSDs seemed too high and I kept reading stories and articles about the short life of SSDs. Most stories revolved around requiring levelling to stop it writing to the same place over and over as they cannot do that for long.
In the end, I opted for something similar:
500 GB drive for the OS (I struggled to find a drive this small!)
1 TB normal desktop speed (7200 rpm) for /home
1TB eco drive (green) for /virtual_machines
I haven't had a problems so far, they are all very quick drives.
Since reviewing this set up, I would probably recommend a slightly different choice. I would still have the 500GB drive for the OS. But instead of 2 x 1 TB drives, I would recommend 3 x 1 TB drives and set them up in a software RAID. This would help if one of the drives fails, you could just get another and plug in to replace it and not lose any data.
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