Re: Installing new SSD drive

2020-06-07 Thread Matti Pulkkinen
John Mellor kirjoitti 7.6.2020 klo 15.09: Just out of interest, why do you care about wear from using swap? What I was trying to get across is just the opposite. To quote myself from my previous email, "I really would not worry about putting swap on an SSD". -- Terveisin / Regards, Matti

Re: Installing new SSD drive

2020-06-07 Thread John Mellor
On 2020-06-06 12:28 p.m., Matti Pulkkinen wrote: Sam Varshavchik kirjoitti 6.6.2020 klo 17.37: I've got rust here that's been spinning for ~12 years in my basement, 24x7, and I expect it to spin for a while longer. I can't quite come to terms with the idea of storage with a suicide clock,

Re: Installing new SSD drive

2020-06-06 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2020-06-06 at 10:37 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I've got rust here that's been spinning for ~12 years in my basement, > 24x7, and I expect it to spin for a while longer. > > I can't quite come to terms with the idea of storage with a suicide > clock, ticking away. And on the

Re: Installing new SSD drive

2020-06-06 Thread Javier Perez
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 2:46 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 6/6/20 12:11 AM, Javier Perez wrote: > > ├─sda3 8:30 28G 0 part / > > > > I plan to add a 120G SDD > > to install the OS on the SDD and keep /Shared_Media's partition on the > HDD. > > Eventually I want to convert it to a Raid 1

Re: Installing new SSD drive

2020-06-06 Thread Matti Pulkkinen
Sam Varshavchik kirjoitti 6.6.2020 klo 17.37: I've got rust here that's been spinning for ~12 years in my basement, 24x7, and I expect it to spin for a while longer. I can't quite come to terms with the idea of storage with a suicide clock, ticking away. It's likely that, sometime in the

Re: Installing new SSD drive

2020-06-06 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Matti Pulkkinen writes: Javier Perez kirjoitti 6.6.2020 klo 10.11: Is it wise nowadays to create a swap partition on the SSD? It is a M.2 WD Green If you're thinking of swap's effect on the lifespan of the drive, it should be fine. In the early days of SSDs the common worry about SSDs

Re: Installing new SSD drive

2020-06-06 Thread Matti Pulkkinen
Javier Perez kirjoitti 6.6.2020 klo 10.11: Is it wise nowadays to create a swap partition on the SSD? It is a M.2 WD Green If you're thinking of swap's effect on the lifespan of the drive, it should be fine. In the early days of SSDs the common worry about SSDs getting wrecked by disk writes

Re: Installing new SSD drive

2020-06-06 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/6/20 12:11 AM, Javier Perez wrote: ├─sda3   8:3    0   28G  0 part / I plan to add a 120G SDD to install the OS on the SDD and keep /Shared_Media's partition on the HDD. Eventually I want to convert it to a Raid 1 sysyem. My idea is to copy /Shared media to a new disk, in a degenerate

Installing new SSD drive

2020-06-06 Thread Javier Perez
Hi. This is a personal project for a Home server. It has a 2T HDD divided into 5 partitions. [root@## ~]# lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:00 1.8T 0 disk ├─sda1 8:101G 0 part /boot ├─sda2 8:20 260M 0 part /boot/efi ├─sda3 8:30 28G 0