A brief history of mine: System OpenSuSe 13.2 with KDE (not that it matters) Operating system & boot partition on /dev/sdc 2 TB disks /dev/sda and /dev/sdb in Software RAID1 (mirrored, not striped) configuration. Two partitions on the RAID disks, one being /home the other unmounted Symptoms All desktop programs became frequently unresponsive (lagged) for… Continue reading Swapping a software RAID1 disk on Desktop Linux