[CentOS] SSD for boot drive and OS

Sat Apr 14 14:00:37 UTC 2012
Benjamin Franz <jfranz at freerun.com>

On 04/13/2012 06:00 PM, aurfalien wrote:
> Oh yea, sorry. Yep you got it, the OCZs.

There is a significant mortality rate with consumer grade SSDs. If you 
are going to use one, pair it up in a software RAID1 with some matching 
partitions on the hard drive and then adjust the RAID to read 
preferentially from the SSD. See 
http://superuser.com/questions/293144/combining-ssd-and-hard-disk-in-software-raid1 
for some links explaining how to do that.

That way when the drive fails you aren't left with a completely crashed 
system.

For any production system like this you should be using RAID anyway.

-- 
Benjamin Franz