I am planning the installation of a Leap 15.3 system which has both hard drives and NVME SSD. The hard drives are configured as a single RAID array with hardware raid card and the NVME SSD is on a PCIe M2 adaptor. This appears as:-
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 1.82 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors
Disk model: KINGSTON SNVS2000G
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
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What I seek is to take advantage of the speed of the SSD and my present thinking is to have the “working” partitions of /,/home and swap on the SSD and have the hard drive as multimedia data which for me takes up significant amounts of space but does not have to work too hard. (I am not a gamer!).
The only exception to this might be if I wish to use the machine to store the database for my digiKam which I understand can have performance issues if saved on NAS and is much better on workstation.
I would appreciate advice and suggestions for partition plan.
Finally, on the ssd, this is shown as /dev/nvme0n1. First time I have tried all this so how is this shown if I divide the drive into partitions? How do they appear as in /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdb2, /dev/sdb3 … Would it be /dev/nvme0n11, /dev/nvme0n12 or /dev/nvme0n1, /dev/nvme0n2…
Grateful for all advice before I try the installation.
Budge.