As I’ve covered extensively in past articles on SSDs, I use SSDs exclusively for my main systems and only use actual hard drives for bulk media storage, backups, and server arrays. As I have done with all my non-Apple system for a number of years, I had no intention of using the original drive at all and so without even booting up the system, I removed the 320GB drive and set about installing another storage device. The particular drive my X230 shipped with is a Seagate Momentus Thin 320GB 7200RPM 2.5-inch drive. This doesn’t bother me at all since HGST and Seagate both make plenty of 7mm options now and SSDs are also readily available in the 7mm form factor. It wasn’t spelled out clearly during the configuration stage but this is a 7mm 2.5-inch drive, not the typical 9.5mm 2.5-inch hard drive form factor that we have become accustomed to for laptops. Rather than pick the ridiculously overpriced storage available direct from Lenovo for the X230, I simply purchased the system with the cheapest storage available which was a 320GB 7200RPM 2.5-inch laptop drive. In a future article, I will cover what configuration of ThinkPad X230 I purchased but for now I will just mention storage. Even better, buy a new SSD and start from scratch. Warning: I should also note that the process of creating an encrypted softraid(4) partition on your drive will destroy whatever data you have on there already so make sure you backup everything before starting this process in a way that you are prepared to restore from. I will have a very small swap partition on the SSD since swap is always encrypted in OpenBSD anyway. I want the entire root filesystem which encompasses everything on this system to be encrypted with softraid(4). On my ThinkPad X230, this is further compounded by the fact that I am using a relatively small SLC SSD which means I really don’t want to limit my options with unnecessary filesystem complexity. In my own personal, non-server systems, I rarely separate out all of the different directores into their own filesystems like /var, /usr, /home, etc. One softraid article has much of the information needed but does not encrypt the entire system, only one filesystem. I came across a few different articles on the subject of encrypted softraid(4) for the root filesystem but all seemed to cover aspects that didn’t entirely fit my goals. Due to my work, I can’t switch to OpenBSD entirely on the desktop but I can use it for much of what I do.
#Softraid upgrade mac#
I have also been a Mac user for even longer. I have used OpenBSD for almost 15 years now and have always enjoyed its simplicity, security, and robust feature set.
#Softraid upgrade trial#
Through a bit of trial and error, I figured it out and it works very well.
#Softraid upgrade how to#
Fortunately, the support exists in softraid(4) but it wasn’t immediately clear how to accomplish this and allow the system to boot properly. One of my goals for the system is to run OpenBSD with an encrypted root filesystem.
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