[Tfug] Looking for PCIe Video, Audio cards & an internal FAST disk drive recommendations

[Christopher P Robbins]

On Jan 15, 2011, at 1:05 PM, Tom Rini <trini at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Harry McGregor <micros at osef.org> wrote:
> 
>> I would recommend buying 20-30% more SSD then you think you will use, as it helps the wear leveling algorithms.
> 
> And if you go that route, don't forget to start mounting various
> things as tmpfs and think about what logs you really care about, for
> how long (and tools like logwatch can be good here too).
> 
> -- 
> Tom
> 
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Is there a "best practice" for mixing storage (ie - SSD with larger SATA drives)?  Would it be best to drop /var/log on SSD and keep media on the SATA?