Right setup for HDD/SSD mix

[Stardenver]

Hi all

Coming from Yunohost I'd like to set up my server the right way, right from the beginning. My bare metal server comes with 2x HDD in RAID 1 for storage and 2x SSD in RAID 1 for system, apps, etc.

On Yunohost I installed the system on the SSD array for max speed and modified the Nextcloud config to use the HDD array for /data. That way all apps did run fast while Nextcloud provided me plenty of storage.

So my question is, if there is some sort of best practice for this on Cloudron? Should I simply do it the same way? Or is there some sort of storage management within Cloudron that gives me some options to assign additional storage to apps? I am trying to get a good balance between speed and storage.

I could replace the SSD drives with 2 other HDD and build an array of 4x Enterprise SAS HDD. Just not sure if I will bottleneck the whole system that way. Anybody here running Cloudron on a HDD only system?

Thank you all for any feedback on this.

PS: I will use the server for mails, Mastodon, Nextcloud and maybe some "lower" apps like pastebin or freshrss.

[BrutalBirdie]

@Stardenver said in Right setup for HDD/SSD mix:

Anybody here running Cloudron on a HDD only system?

Yep, one of my Backup Servers who is running +10x Minio apps for backup space with 10TB HDD space is running HDD only.
A restart can take some time, but with 10TB it is expected.

For such mixed systems I would always go for System SSD and Storage HDD.
But storage can also have part of the SSD.

In the end all is backuped somewhere in the clouds and if anything fails or needs to be changed just restore.
(To be able to have this kind of mindset is one of the best features imo :D)

[Stardenver]

@BrutalBirdie said in Right setup for HDD/SSD mix:

@Stardenver said in Right setup for HDD/SSD mix:

Anybody here running Cloudron on a HDD only system?

Yep, one of my Backup Servers who is running +10x Minio apps for backup space with 10TB HDD space is running HDD only.
A restart can take some time, but with 10TB it is expected.

For such mixed systems I would always go for System SSD and Storage HDD.
But storage can also have part of the SSD.

In the end all is backuped somewhere in the clouds and if anything fails or needs to be changed just restore.
(To be able to have this kind of mindset is one of the best features imo :D)

Thank you very much for taking the time to answer me. I already figured out that its pretty easy to add several kinds of external storage to Cloudron. To be honest.. I am thinking about getting a cheaper server now and add some cloud storage to it. I am using as storage solution from a german provider and it worked pretty good in the past. So I guess I will go with SSD only and add additional storage by mountig this storage box to my server.

[Santoz]

You made the right decision, because using SSDs is a more productive solution than outdated HDDs. Especially since now you can find not new form factors, such as mSATA SSDs, which will be inexpensive. For example, the ROGOB 2TB mSATA SSD will cost you only $119. I think this is a fairly reasonable price.