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I have 250gb ssd, 6x 3tb hdd and 16gb memory.

I partitioned ssd;

16gb swap, 30gb /, rest of /home

raid 6 for hdd and no spare, no swap just ext4 /home

I will use this server for store all my media and files also backup.

I would like to know if this setup is good and if there is better setup please advise me

Thanks

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I would advise making the following changes:

Use your SSD for the OS


You have tons of hard drive space with your HDDs. Therefore, I would use the entire SSD for your / partition.

Also, I would move your swapdrive off of the SSD because, well, SSDs aren't the best for swapping.

Similarly, I would move your /tmp folder off of the SSD.


Set Up LVM


You have six hard drives available. Set up a LVM system spanning the six full HDDs. This will act similar to a RAID, but will offer you slightly better performance and will allow you to define more partitions faster. All in all, LVM is a Good Thing™.

If you want to use a RAID-like striping setup, there are ways to do that, but they're not the simplest. However, I'm guessing that you're using RAID as a form of backup. This is a very very very bad idea. RAID has never been and will never be a replacement to backing up.

On your LVM system, I would create a 16GB swap partition. From there, assign another 100GB to /tmp so you can have a reliable tempdriver without murdering your SSD. Send the rest to your /home partition, or even better, a specific partition for storing files (maybe /files?).

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    I couldn't agree more about the swap, I would go further and recommend that you never allow any thing that completes a lot of writes to the disk to use an SSD. Feb 14, 2016 at 7:34

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