Re: Migrating from hard drives to SSDs

2023-07-14 Thread gene heskett
On 7/14/23 09:34, Anssi Saari wrote: gene heskett writes: One of the things apparently missing in today's support for the arm64 boards such as the bananapi-m5, is the lack of support for the nvme memory on some of these devices. I have quite a few of them, all booting and running from 64G

Re: Migrating from hard drives to SSDs

2023-07-14 Thread Anssi Saari
gene heskett writes: > One of the things apparently missing in today's support for the arm64 > boards such as the bananapi-m5, is the lack of support for the nvme > memory on some of these devices. I have quite a few of them, all > booting and running from 64G micro-sd's. Yet these all have,

Re: Migrating from hard drives to SSDs

2023-07-12 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 6:40 AM gene heskett wrote: > [ ...] > One of the things apparently missing in today's support for the arm64 > boards such as the bananapi-m5, is the lack of support for the nvme > memory on some of these devices. I have quite a few of them, all booting > and running from

Re: Migrating from hard drives to SSDs

2023-07-12 Thread gene heskett
On 7/11/23 21:39, David Christensen wrote: On 7/11/23 13:18, Mick Ab wrote: I am thinking of changing my storage from two 1TB hard drives in a software RAID 1 configuration to two M.2 Nvme 1 TB SSDs. The two SSDs would be put into a software RAID 1 configuration. Currently each hard drive

Re: Migrating from hard drives to SSDs

2023-07-11 Thread David Christensen
On 7/11/23 13:18, Mick Ab wrote: I am thinking of changing my storage from two 1TB hard drives in a software RAID 1 configuration to two M.2 Nvme 1 TB SSDs. The two SSDs would be put into a software RAID 1 configuration. Currently each hard drive contains both the operating system and user data.

Re: Migrating from hard drives to SSDs

2023-07-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Nicolas George wrote: > Dan Ritter (12023-07-11): > > mdadm create /dev/md10 /dev/nvme0n1p1 /dev/nvme1n1p1 --level=1 > > --raid-devices=2 > > and so on for the other RAID pairs -- I'd call them md10, 11 and > > 12 or so on. > > So you… create new RAIDs on the new drives and just ignore the old

Re: Migrating from hard drives to SSDs

2023-07-11 Thread Nicolas George
Dan Ritter (12023-07-11): > mdadm create /dev/md10 /dev/nvme0n1p1 /dev/nvme1n1p1 --level=1 > --raid-devices=2 > and so on for the other RAID pairs -- I'd call them md10, 11 and > 12 or so on. So you… create new RAIDs on the new drives and just ignore the old data? That works, but that can hardly

Re: Migrating from hard drives to SSDs

2023-07-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Mick Ab wrote: > I am thinking of changing my storage from two 1TB hard drives in a software > RAID 1 configuration to two M.2 Nvme 1 TB SSDs. The two SSDs would be put > into a software RAID 1 configuration. Currently each hard drive contains > both the operating system and user data. > > What

Re: Migrating from hard drives to SSDs

2023-07-11 Thread Nicolas George
Mick Ab (12023-07-11): > I am thinking of changing my storage from two 1TB hard drives in a software > RAID 1 configuration to two M.2 Nvme 1 TB SSDs. The two SSDs would be put > into a software RAID 1 configuration. Currently each hard drive contains > both the operating system and user data. >

Re: Migrating from hard drives to SSDs

2023-07-11 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 4:18 PM Mick Ab wrote: > > I am thinking of changing my storage from two 1TB hard drives in a software > RAID 1 configuration to two M.2 Nvme 1 TB SSDs. The two SSDs would be put > into a software RAID 1 configuration. Currently each hard drive contains both > the

Migrating from hard drives to SSDs

2023-07-11 Thread Mick Ab
I am thinking of changing my storage from two 1TB hard drives in a software RAID 1 configuration to two M.2 Nvme 1 TB SSDs. The two SSDs would be put into a software RAID 1 configuration. Currently each hard drive contains both the operating system and user data. What steps would you recommend to