[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
>