Re: [CentOS] SSD drives for the OS - 1 or 2?

2016-01-05 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 01/04/2016 06:26 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > Preparing to build a small replacement server (initially built in 2005) > and normally for the OS I would buy 2x500GB drives and deploy in a RAID > 1 configuration. > Now we have SSD drives available > - does just a single SSD drive offer the same

[CentOS] SSD drives for the OS - 1 or 2?

2016-01-04 Thread Rob Kampen
Preparing to build a small replacement server (initially built in 2005) and normally for the OS I would buy 2x500GB drives and deploy in a RAID 1 configuration. Now we have SSD drives available - does just a single SSD drive offer the same reliability or is there advantage in deploying two in

Re: [CentOS] SSD drives for the OS - 1 or 2?

2016-01-04 Thread Keith Keller
On 2016-01-05, Rob Kampen wrote: > - does just a single SSD drive offer the same reliability or is there > advantage in deploying two in a Raid 1 config? All else being equal, a RAID1 will be more reliable than a single drive, whether it's magnetic or SSD. > Also,

Re: [CentOS] SSD drives for the OS - 1 or 2?

2016-01-04 Thread Earl A Ramirez
On 5 January 2016 at 09:26, Rob Kampen wrote: > Preparing to build a small replacement server (initially built in 2005) > and normally for the OS I would buy 2x500GB drives and deploy in a RAID 1 > configuration. > Now we have SSD drives available > - does just a

Re: [CentOS] SSD drives for the OS - 1 or 2?

2016-01-04 Thread John R Pierce
On 1/4/2016 4:26 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: It seems most SSD are in laptop drive size, shape and interface - thus not a good fit into a server motherboard unless I'm missing something. - what devices are you using? server motherboards don't care what size the drives are, that's a function of