I have only bought Samsung or Crucial(micron) (prior to samsung really being serious about ssd's), for home. Work buys from a large enterprise vendor, who sources things from various ssd makers.
I have been putting a small unmirrored ssd in for OS and then whatever else for the other one if you need larger size and cheaper, but can tolerate slower, at home that is.
Some of the rpm installs were taking way too long on spinning disks for me to even like at home.
On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 6:57 PM ToddAndMargo via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
On 2020-04-22 16:24, Roger Heflin wrote:
One question, it your os install on a spinning disk or on a ssd? depending on how much a given rpm is touching it could take a long time for some installs on spinning disks. I gave up and just about all of the machines I have have a 64gb ssd or larger just so the upgrades are nice and fast.
Hi Roger,
Disclaimer, I now only sell Samsung SSD drives. Been burned too many times by cheaper ones. Had to give away too much free labor and free parts. Now all my customers are on Samsung and I no longer have that economic drain to worry about.
This particular server uses two 2GB mechanical drives in a RSTe (e for enterprise) RAID 1 configuration on an Intel C236 chipset
At the time I designed the server, larger SATA SSD's had not reached my desired reliability in RSTe RAID 1 (Samsung have great ones for that now) and NVMe were small and terribly expensive.
I have asked the customer to let me remove the mechanical drives as they are getting close to the end of their lifespan and replace then with a single Samsung NVMe. Samsung's NVMe drives are now super reliable and the server is no longer mission critical, but only "necessary". And they are assiduous about backing up (dump/restore script by me).
Has the server remained mission critical, I would have recommended Samsung's SATA SSD that are meant for RAID.
When I do installs from a USB3 flash drive, I am still tickled over the 10 minute installs. Then again, Fedora to be my all time favorite operating system.
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