Re: [CentOS] Disk choice for workstation ?

I have seen significant improvement when virtual machine disks are on their own spindle/ssd. I would add an SSD and put the VM's on it.

Mike

On 12/26/2020 3:20 PM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:

Hi,

My workstation is currently equipped with a pair of Western Digital Red 1 TB SATA disks in a software RAID 1 setup.

Some stuff like working with virtual machines is a bit slow, so I'm thinking about replacing the disks by SSD.

I'm hesitating between three different setups:

1. Use a relatively small SSD (120 to 240 GB) to reinstall the system on it.

Keep the two SATA disks in a RAID 1 array and mount /home on it.

2. Use a larger SSD (500 GB to 1 TB), install everything (including /home) on

it. Keep the two SATA disks in a RAID 1 array and mount them on /data for storage.

3. Get rid of the disks and go full SSD, with a 1 TB disk.

Any advice from the hardware gurus on this list?

Cheers,

Niki