Re: SSD and VMWare Server 2... spicy!

[Rob Iles <rob.iles@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Ian,

Incredibly tempting!! Will have to talk myself into parting with the money
:s

I know I should research this myself, but does anyone know anything about
SSD Reliability? There's evidently no need to RAID them for performance,
but
what about data integrity?

[Edit] EEK! - some of the reviews http://tinyurl.com/6x4pg3z suggest
reliability is not a strong point! I think I'll wait a little while - -
Please let me/us know if you experience any issues with it - - - sorry to
put a damper on things! [/Edit]

Rob



On 1 February 2011 22:58, i_lowe <ian@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
> I know many folks run a home server, and quite a few have experimented
with
> VMWare's free server product.
>
> A few weeks ago, mine popped a disk - no problem, as I was using
Windows
> Server 2008 R2, and the software raid is easy enough to recover (if a
little
> slow). I decided to take the chance to swap my 5 X 500Gb drives for 3
X 1Tb
> drives instead.
>
> big mistake. whilst the setup was a lot quieter and used less power,
the
> VMs now ground the machine into the floor. Clearly, the disk subsystem
was
> the problem.
>
> After a bit of interweb research, I decided to give an SSD a whirl and
> purchased an OCZ Vertex 2 solid state drive. I fancied a bit of space,
so I
> got a 240Gb one (about 340 quid).
>
> Shut down the server, installed the SSD (easy, as it uses the same
SATA
> interface as a regular hard drive), and rebooted. initially, I'm not
seeing
> any change, as I'm copying everything from the spindle disk...
>
> but as soon as I restarted the Virtual Machines, running from the SSD.
Holy
> crap. talk about smelly stuff off a shiny shovel...
>
> I host an exchange server, a general database devvy server, an ISA
server
> and a file server for all the home files/profiles etc.
>
> Folder on the file server now pop open so fast it's eye popping.
treesize
> across the folders completes in 4 seconds (previous best - 6 minutes).
>
> The Server that's acting as a host for the VMs is now nicely
responsive,
> and accessing my media files there is refreshingly snappy.
>
> All in all, you *have* to try one of these if you run virtual
machines.
> it's crazy fast.
>
>
>



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