Thanks Andrew, Do I need to rebuild my installation or can I add a software RAID at any time by downloading the correct packages? Are there any documents that are particularly helpful on set up and partitioning? I imagined a single partition and call it /data. Cheers Andrew On 03/05/2018 10:23 PM, Andrew Pam wrote:
On 05/03/18 22:15, Andrew Greig via luv-main wrote:
Can I keep sda as my boot disk and just run sdb and sdc for data storage? Yes, I've been doing that for years. I started with a HDD for the boot drive and 2x 2TB drives for my data, but eventually upgraded to a 1TB SSD for my boot drive and 2x 4TB for the data. I have two partitions on the 4TB RAID 1 volume, a 3TB XFS filesystem for larger files like videos and a 1TB ext4 filesystem for everything else.
I keep my Steam games on the SSD for speed and because they can always be redownloaded so I don't need the reliability of the mirror.
Am I on the right track here or do I have incorrect expectations? It's been working fine for me.
Cheers, Andrew