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Archive => 18.7 Legacy Series => Topic started by: nle on August 21, 2018, 06:56:08 pm

Title: Go from HDD to SSD in an Dell R210II?
Post by: nle on August 21, 2018, 06:56:08 pm

Hi all,

I'm currently running OPNsense on an Dell R210 with an old school HDD, but I now have a spare    
Samsung 850 EVO 250GB M.2 SSD.

Is it worth it to put it in the R210II?

If yes, how would you go about setting it up? Installing default and restoring the config? Clone the drive (if yes, how?)?

Thanks!

Title: Re: Go from HDD to SSD in an Dell R210II?
Post by: bartjsmit on August 21, 2018, 08:18:44 pm

If you have a decent amount of RAM and don't use a web proxy, you're unlikely to see any difference. Your reboots will be a bit faster, but once the system is loaded in memory, the disk will do very little.

You can monitor your disk activity from the console. This thread has plenty of inspiration: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/sharing-of-dtrace-scripts.32855/

Easiest migration is back up your config, install OPNsense and restore.

Bart...

Title: Re: Go from HDD to SSD in an Dell R210II?
Post by: nle on August 21, 2018, 10:07:06 pm

Great, thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

The R210II only has 4 gb of memory – but that should be fine for OPNsense. I'm not running any caching atm.

Title: Re: Go from HDD to SSD in an Dell R210II?
Post by: bartjsmit on August 22, 2018, 08:16:08 am

4 GB is plenty. I'm running a VM with 2 GB and disk I/O hovers around a few 100's of KB per second.

Bart...