Le 26/08/16 à 14:51, Freddy Rietdijk a écrit : > Hi, > > I would like to use Nix for a certain data analysis where I will have > several thousand files which are all together about two TB in size. At > the moment NixOS is installed on a SSD which is a quarter that size. > Would it be possible to install a second store elsewhere, in this case > on a slower HDD? > > I couldn't find anything about this so I guess it isn't possible. Do > you have in that case any other suggestions? I suppose the most > obvious solution would be to install Nix on the slower HDD. Using LVM > with multiple SSD's gets a bit too expensive. > > How does Nix perform on a HDD? Slowly ;-). I had an old laptop with HDD, and it was seriously painfull.
One solution could be to mount your SSD as a cache for the bigger HDD. I know it is possible, but never tried it myself. Another solution is to use a different store path for your experiments. If you still want binary cache support, i experienced very good results with proot. -- Layus. > > Freddy > > > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
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