hallamnet Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Would this be a good option or would the VHD's not get on the Flash chips as they are over 8GB? http://www.dabs.com/products/seagate-1tb-desktop-sshd-sata-6gb-s-64mb-3-5--8gb-ssd-cache-8XSL.html?refs=56340000&src=2 Can anyone help? Regards, Hal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yodafett Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 If you are not going to raid the drives you would be better off with a WD Black or Velaciraptor. Another option world be for additional speed would be a true SSD for the VM boot drive (a 240 should hold about 5-6 VM boot drives) with a WD Black or red for any data held on the VM (say media for a plex server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hallamnet Posted August 20, 2014 Author Share Posted August 20, 2014 Thanks for the reply yodafett. I would be looking to have 4 VM's running with a footprint of about 100GB each and one VHD around 250GB for storing ISO's, WDS images and updates. ESXi currently runs from a USB stick but going to look to get it on an SSD running from the optical sata port just because I can:) I have a Synology DS412+ for media storage. Currently have 4 1TB drives in a raid to give me as much space as possible but all odd and old drives while I get my setup up and running. SSD would be my first option in a raid but did see the hybrid drives and thought it might be a good idea. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikon Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 I'm not sure why you would want to RAID SSDs. Is it to get more total space? Is it for speed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoondoggy Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 I'm not sure why you would want to RAID SSDs. Is it to get more total space? Is it for speed?Yes and yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikon Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 I think the increased storage is a fair argument. I don't think there will be any significant increase in speed because I suspect the SATA port limitations will prevent it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hallamnet Posted August 20, 2014 Author Share Posted August 20, 2014 Yes and yes. What schoondoggy said. Combine 4 SSD's together to turn all 4 drives in to 1 logical volume. As this will be spanned over numerous drives, this should perform quicker as far as i know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikon Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 I look forward to reading about your results. As I said, I wonder if there will be any significant increase in throughput because you will be limited by the SATA II ports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_Borges Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Maximum PC tested two SSD's in RAID 0 versus a single SSD back a few months Here is the link to their February Posting " PC Performance Testing" http://shar.es/1n8v10. They saw only about 20 % improvement in throughput - - but also noticed some slowdown in the PC mark benchmark program. The main problem is whether the "trim" ( garbage collection) commands can be passed along thru the raid controller. This is a sort of hit or miss depending on the SSD Controller and OS but extremely important for good performance on SSD's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikon Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 That's interesting Al_Borges. I hadn't considered the TRIM aspect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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