Options for quicker HD access?

[FatRakoon]

Right, I have a bad habit of waffling so I wil try to keep this to a minimum.

Please trust me when I say that I have typed this out a couple of times now and so I decided to just give the facts...

My Main Linux Laptop is an ASUS ROG and I have taken the DVD Out, and so this has allowed me to have 3 Hard Disks in it.

my Drives are :-

250GB SSD = / and 8GB Swap
2TB = /home
2TB = /mnt/etc

I would love to get software RAID to make the 2x2TB into a single 4TB /home, but for some reason, Im kind of lost on that with newer distros, and while I have setup my main Linux Desktop with LVM, it does not help with the speed of the disk access so its useless to me.


See? Im still waffling on...

What can I do to make things load up faster?

Can I setup Software RAID with these 2 HDs AFTER I have installed Linux ( My current distro of choice is Mint Cinnamon as I seem to have taken to it with mint 19 )

 

[FatRakoon]

RAID 1 in a laptop doesn't seem like a great idea to me. If all you want is a single 4TB volume, I would use LVM. If speed is an issue, get your wallet out and pony up for SSDs. How come you need 4TB of local storage anyway? Editing a 4K feature film?

I have recently been toying about with LVM on the test Linux PC and I have learned a great deal, but speed on the Laptop is fairly horrid for some reason?

Get my wallet out? LOL I have 13 PCs and 5 Laptops, all fairly high end and they all have SSDs as their boot drives with the exception of my main 3 PCs and they have M2 drives to boot from.

As for wanting 4TB, its a 2-fold answer

1. I just have mass storage because I have my entire steam collection on there, plus all my MP3 collection and ,well, its a copy of my main Linux PC really... That being a Desktop has a 4TB for /home and so its really only that I want to copy that Machine

2. Eve nthough the disks I am using are Seagate Hybrids, they should be a little quicker than they are, and so I was hoping that striping them, might speed them up.

WD Blacks or the Toshibas might be in order instead, but hey... Big SSDs are comign down, so who knows?

Bigger 2.5" Drives are too thick to fit.