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<font size="-1">Yesterday I received two systems we ordered and
installed CentOS 6.5 on them. I am ignorant of SSD speeds and
these systems have 2 128gb/ea I'm running as RAID1 via mdtools.
I'm amazed at the speed compared to the SATA II/III drives I've
been using.<br>
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In the past we've used drives because we wanted space. In this
project I would be happy with a 20GB SSD so space is not an
issue. I decided to give it a try. I like them.<br>
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Are write speeds slower that standard drives? Is there any reason
I should not move forward with this model of using SSD in our
systems vs real drives?<br>
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I do have rant about CentOS 6.5 text install. I've googled it and
I understand why it is like this I just hate that I could do this
in 5, but not 6.<br>
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I've installed many CentOS 5 systems around the world. In some
cases I need to reinstall them. I may be going to an older Fedora
system to CentOS. Or I may have corruption. I may even install
new hardware. What I do is create a serial bootable CD. I then
place a device on the server's serial port, connect remotely to
it, and have the customer boot the CD. I can now install in text
mode remotely. If I'm working on a system that has already been
loaded I'll copy vmlinuz and initrd.img to it, modify grub
meny.lst and then boot that entry. <br>
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This works on CentOS 6 up until I get to partitioning disks. You
can not do custom partitioning any more via text. I had to
install the system in my lab last night via VNC. This complicates
these remote installs because I have to figure out a way to gain
remote IP access. I think the only solution is to create a
kickstart file. On a new system that the customer purchases I
will need to know about the drives before I can create the file to
partition them. Forcing a graphical install just sucks and to me
that is anti-server and pro-desktop.<br>
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Just my rant, ignore it. :)<br>
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