G+_Brian Goossen Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 To: Network geniuses From: Geek in training Q: Why are SSD drives not used more in severs, especially in wired local networks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Eddie Foy Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 I'd guess cost, density, and the HD not being the bottleneck? (that and upgrade budget cycles) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Tom Nardi Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 They are expensive. That's all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jared Houtsma Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 They are all the time, depends on needs of user. Some of my customers are concerned with storage, some are concerned with io Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Yup, if you check out Padre's other show "TWiET", you'd hear them talk about SSDs in servers quite a bit. SSDs are coming down in price quite a bit, have lower power consumption, and are usually more reliable. Makes them an excellent option for servers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Brian Goossen Posted June 10, 2015 Author Share Posted June 10, 2015 What use wold benefit most: 1) file server 2) internal server processing? Also, in a wired network what is usually the slowest piece/choke point? Thanks for your feedback guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Warren Knight (whk) Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 As stated by others the workload drives the bottleneck but in general for your two choices it would be internal server processing. Even in a wired situation your fileserver will probably be bottlenecked by the network before your raid disk set. Even in internal processing for many workloads a decent amount of memory with good caching is more important than disk speed. Think SSDs for cases where you are randomly accessing many different files (unlikely to be in cache), working on large files (doesn't fit in cache), doing synchronous writes for integrity (although a good hardware raid controller with battery protected cache is probably cheeper).? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 It seems like a file server with several users could really benefit from an SSD too. Chances are, not everyone will want the exact same file but several might want a file at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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