Partition option / LVM ignorance?

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Ok, on my Linux Laptop, I have a few small niggles, and I am not quite happy about the solutions.

Heck, I have written this twice now, but I keep waffling ,so I will cut it down and if I get any help, I will expand, so if you need to ask questions, please do so.

My Laptop has a 120SSD and 2x2TB HDs
I have tried LVM but I seem to be forced into its own way of doing something that I am not happy with.

Normally I have root and Swap on the SSD and .home on the 2TB but I need more room and as I have spare 2TB Drives, I have swapped out the DVD with another 2TB drive.

When I tried LLVM I ended up wioth a 50GB / and sure, I did get a 3.7TB /Home but it was very slow.

Maybe a more normal software RAID ( striped ) will be better for me, but the Laptop does not do it, and the Linux distros that I tried dont do it either.

Anyone have any ideas or advise how I can get LVM to work better for me?
 
Ok thanks. I will have a look at the link too!
It does not seem to have much in the way of giving me control with LVM during installation, plus, I dont want to make some silly mistake in doing something that will cause me to lose data should it need reinstalling later on!
I need to do a lot of reading up clearly!
 
Thanks guys.

I have been doing quite a bit of reading up, and I am going to do a lot more before I jump into it.

What I do have, and I feel that I might just give it a proper shot now, is that my Server is currently Windows Server 2008, however, I am not using any of the server things with it, it is basicallt just a file server, and I use the CPU for Folding and nothing else.

Previous to re-building my Server, I was using 4 NAS drives. These are 4x3TB + 4x4TB + 2x2TB + 2x2TB.

What I was getting was, that my home PCs, seemingly due to Windows 10 updates, were losing sight of the NAS Drives

The NAS Drives were simply giving me lots of grief in trying to access them???

In the end, what I did, was buy all new HDs for the Server and copy the files off the NAS drives onto the Server, and use the Server instead of the NAS drives.

My main PC has its NETWORK DRives mounted just fine and when I need to, I can access the Server most of the time just fine with other PCs in the house ( Kitchen, MediaPC, Daughters PC, Laptops, Tablets etc ) while the Netgears, I had to fully wipe them and start again, and since then, even though I have set them both up as the same thing ( one large Partition with FlexRAID ) one is accessible and the other, windows gives me the error dialog stating that it cannot be accessed, even though I can get onto the admin pages on both just fine. Annoying.

Both the DLinks has 2x2TB are just disconnected.

Anyway, I have been seriously considering moving the Server to Linux and my issue is how to sort out the Drives, but the more I am reading about LVM, the more Im thinking that it will be a great option for me.

So, I mught give it a shot, perhaps on a temporary trial server first of course, but whatever I do... Im learning a great deal about this LVM and so far, nothing I have read is bad, its all good... Mostly LOL
 
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