On Wednesday 28 July 2021 12:29:42 Charles Curley wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jul 2021 09:44:24 -0400 > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > I've been dragging my feet on updating from stretch to buster, > > waiting for 1TB SSD's to get affordable. Now they almost have. > > > > But I do have a pair of 500 GB SamSung EVO 860's and one empty sata > > socket. Spares for the rest of my multi-machine farm, currently at 5 > > other machines. > > I have a setup similar to yours. However, I use SSDs for stuff I want > readily available (OS, programs, /home, etc.). > > On my main computer, I have two 4TB spinning rust drives, with RAID0 > on them. I keep stuff on them where speed isn't as big a deal: > backups, etc. Backups include amanda backups, rsnapshot backups, and > others. I plan to add drives to upgrade the RAID to add checksums, and > that will involve buying a SATA controller. > > If money is a concern, something like that might work for you.
ATM, it is not. Thanks Charles. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
