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Re: how best to do



On Wednesday 28 July 2021 12:29:42 Charles Curley wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Jul 2021 09:44:24 -0400
>
> Gene Heskett <gheskett@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
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