Hi Russell, The 1Tb is an SSD for speed and I have another 2 x 2Tb drives for my data. After 3 years of photography and 13,000 images in raw, proofs and full size jpgs I have around 500Gb of data. This should meet my needs for 2 years at least at which time I will build a bigger machine. I am in the partitioner at present, manual chosen, I want root on the SSD LVM VG ubuntu-vg LV root - 2.0TB Linux device-mapper (linear) is what I am presented with so do I need to change root to home? LVM VG ubuntu-vg, LV swap_1 - 1.0 GB Linux device-mapper (linear) SCS13 (0,0,0) (sda) - 1.0 TB ATA Samsung SSD 860 SCS15 (0,0,0)(sdb) - 2.0 TB ATA ST2000DM006-2DM1 #1 primary 2.0 TB K lvm SCS16 (0,0,0) (sdc) - 2.0 TB ATA ST2000DM006-2DM1 #1 primary 2.0 TB K lvm So how do I partition this so that root and boot are on the 1.0TB SSD and so that /home is the RAID array of two disks of 2TB each? I am in Guided Partitioning at present, next step is Configure Sotware RAID Then Configure the Logical Volume Manager Then configure encrypted volumes Then configure iSCSI volumes I wouls appreciate some advice as I am in pretty deep, my eyes are above the water but I need to take a breath soon. Gratefully Andrew On 22/2/19 7:04 pm, Russell Coker wrote:
If you have a RAID-1 of 2TB disks a single 1TB disk doesn't provide much value. I suggest using the port for a second SSD instead and have a RAID-1 on SSD for root and /home and 2*2TB RAID-1 for everything else.
If a 2TB RAID-1 isn't enough for your big files then consider getting a couple of 6TB disks, they are cheap nowadays.