[TriLUG] Disk subsystem recommendations

[Ron Kelley]

x2 on the SSDs.  $489/ea for the Intel 160GB G2 SSDs (zipzoomfly.com).  Put a pair in RAID-0 for $1K.  Very fast and should last a long time.

-Ron



On Nov 25, 2009, at 4:31 PM, Joseph Tate wrote:

> I don't think you want the overhead of LVM.  I'd stick with straight partitions.
> 
> Why not go solid state disks?
> 
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:02 PM, btncix btncix <btncix at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't know much about VMWare nor much about virtualization, but if your
>> main concern is performance, I would suggest you keep RAID-0 and create
>> separate partitions. If you're worried about flexibility with hard drive
>> partitions, look into LVM for your root partitions and logical partitions
>> for your boot partitions. Of course, this more difficult to setup than what
>> you were thinking about, but it let's you keep RAID-0 and still create your
>> VMs with direct physical access to hard drive.
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Thanks,

-Ron
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