--On Thursday, July 25, 2019 4:21 PM +0200 hw <hw at gc-24.de> wrote: > In any case, get two 147GB disks to install the system on and use some > RAID mirror setup to create two logical volumes. That separates system > from data and leaves you two spares for when a disk fails. I'm considering buying a couple 512GB SSDs to run in a mirror as the boot drive and use all the regular drives in hardware RAID 6 as /home (including IMAP email and Samba shares). I'm guessing I should put swap on the spindles? > You may want to take out some of the memory and check power consumption > since more memory might consume more power, and you don't need that much. Good idea. I'll probably cut it down to 32 GB, mostly for use by SpamAssassin and ClamAV.