Any Benefit Installing the OS on a SSD

[Drashna Jaelre 159]

I use a Samsung SSD for my OS drive to accelerate booting but can't see a benefit in my use case for SSD RAID config as mine is a primarily a media storage server.

 

 

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Faster speed.

 

For anything that is very disk intensive (virtualization, databases, cache for photo/video editing), then this would be very useful.

If you want speed then Intel 750 PCIe SSD in raid is the go. The guys at PCper put 5 in raid which maxed out the cpu such that the 5th actually slowed the lot down.

 

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Storage/Five-Intel-SSD-750s-Tested-Two-Million-IOPS-and-10-GBsec-Achievement-Unlocked

 

Only requirement is $$$$, X99 chipset and a 40 lane CPU.

And probably cost you more than $4000 for just the motherboard, CPU and cards. Not counting the case, RAM, other drives, OS, etc.

[Trimble Epic 2]

I would agree with all of the above sentiments...

 

Except, I would add this bit of knowledge:  When an SSD starts to fail, sometimes it just goes *poof*.  So,have your BMR backups ready.

 

We should all be paying attention to this other podcast:  http://podnutz.com/myharddrivedied.