On Wednesday 26 Jun 2013 00:29:04 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 25/06/2013 23:44, Mick wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 Jun 2013 21:59:20 Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On 25/06/2013 21:10, Mick wrote:
> > I think it is used to RAID the SSD onto the hard drive, so that it can be > > replicated onto a new SSD if/when the original goes bad. > > This is a laptop right? No, I am hunting for a replacement desktop. > > How do people mirror their SD onto the SATA, or what is the recommended > > way to safeguard the SSD installed OS? > > You copy it. You do not raid it. With two disks, just rsync over > whatever you need whenever you need to do it. Do you automate this, or just do it after the system has been updated/changed? > You will notice the grunt those i7s can deliver when you start to do > this (sort of typical for mine...): > > 3 virtualbox vms running, 1 Windows for IE and Office > 30 tabs open in firefox > emerge world going on set to -j32 -l8 > 30-odd konsole tabs open, often more than half tailing a log file at > more than 200 lines a minute > the usual desktop apps (mail, skype, movie playing in one corner) O_O You are right, I will *never* notice the difference between the two CPUs ... > I sort of just keep loading it up till I run out of things to leave > open, and never notice the difference. This is an 8 core i7 with 16G RAM I guess you mean 4 core + hyperthreading? > and 128G SSD - complete total overkill for any rational usage, even a > busy devops sysadmin - but we get good prices on the company corporate > account > > It all comes down to what you really *need* as opposed to how much > techie-bling you *want* :-) I also need to find out what my other half needs and of course I can't ignore what she wants, or I won't hear the end of it! :p -- Regards, Mick
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