On Apr 13, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > I just ordered a new machine that's destined to become a Centos 6 application > server for a publishing company, and decided to get one with a 40GB SSD as well > as a standard hard drive. > > I'm thinking that I can put most of the operating system on that drive and have > the home directories and whatnot on the regular hard drive. Are there any > pitfalls lying in wait for an unwary person like me when setting this thing up? > > Further, I suspect that if that thing rattles along like I think it should I'll > probably want to add a SSD to my own desktop machine here. Since this computer > is already set up with the default Centos 6 partitioning system on a single hard > drive (/boot, /home and /) is there an easy way to transfer the OS to the SSD or > would I be better off reformatting this thing and starting over from scratch if > I want to have a SSD for my boot and OS drive? I use this setup (albeit a bigger SSD) on a few systems. Some workstations for my power users and some of my servers. Works fine, stick with the Intel X series, not the M. Although there new gear looks killer; http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/ssd-910-series-specification.html Plugs direct into a PCIe slot, pretty shweeeet. We need the bandwidth so this may be over kill for you, but still its cool. - aurf