<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 12:12, Douglas Pearless <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Douglas.Pearless@pearless.co.nz">Douglas.Pearless@pearless.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I'd recommend that the boot drive is a small (say 64GB) SSD as it makes trying out new stuff and rebooting very fast!<br></blockquote><div><br>My personal opinion is that if you're planning leave it on 24/7 then an SSD is a waste of money. I don't really think a separate boot/OS drive is necessary - I've been running a combined backend/frontend with a single drive for more than 5 years and never felt I needed a separate boot/OS drive. If you're going to be recording a lot of stuff simultaneously then perhaps having MySQL on a separate drive might be important but I'd wait until you have problems before worrying about it. If I found I did need a second drive for MySQL I'd consider an SSD just for the noise reduction.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div></div>