Does Your Primary Linux Server Have An HDD or SSD?
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View Poll Results: Does Your Primary Linux Server Have An HDD or SSD?
....should be an option as in both of my servers the primary boot partition resides on my SSD whilst I have moved 1. /var/log 2. /var/spool/mail 3. Swap partition - all to a multi-partitioned mechanical drive.
HDD. In my network the network connection is the limiting factor (100Mbit/s), so I don't see the need for a SSD here. Boot times simply are negligible, the machine runs 24/7 anyways and is only rebooted in case of kernel updates.
My server is a collection of other people's "junk" and other things that people have given me, and people usually don't hand out SSDs...Now I have an 80gb for the OS, home folder, and web files, and a 160gb for my backups of my laptops.
As mentioned above, network speed is the bottleneck for me as well, and if for whatever reason the server is off, it usually boots in under a minute.
My server could well benefit from a SSD with all the VMs I run, but they are mostly OpenVZ containers so I make do ok with 3x WD 'Black' (1x500GB for OS & 2x1TB for data). Most of it's day-to-day usage is as a fileserver (as well as providing DHCP & DNS) but I also use it as a testing lab for all my TurnKey VMs!
Networking too is my biggest bottleneck, however I'm sure that it would benefit from an SSD when running lots of OVZ containers...
Last edited by Jeremy Davis; 05-01-2014 at 05:21 AM.
Reason: fix typo
Polls S/B for laptop/portable, desktop and server since H/W options often differ. For example a laptop usually has a single drive. I breathed new life into mine by replacing the HDD with an SSD. Took boot times to ~15s. My desktop has an SSD for system and $HOME partitions and a couple older but still healthy HDDs for bulk storage. I have a file server (essentially NAS) that has a 2TB and 3TB HDD. It had a pair of 2TB drives that were mirrored until one of them developed excessive remapped sectors at which time I replaced it with a larger drive
You don't say what sort of server.
The benefit of SSD depend on what the server needs to do. My server is used for serving files, media and web pages. The amount of activity on the small system disk is minimal and the machine only gets rebooted on average about once per year. There may be more value in an SSD on a thin client configuration, but for my use there would seem to be little if any benefit.
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