i am still on HHDs havent made the switch over to ss as i am still looking for the right one to try out.

good thing they have come down in prices withing the last 6-9 months which makes it a plus for folks on a budget.

i may splurge myself with a couple for my bday next month.

I use SSD for specific applications, primarily for DB storage. The DB servers are KVM virtual machines, where SSD makes quite a difference. The SSDs replaced RAID 10 HDD as storage for a DRBD device in a Pacemaker cluster. In this particular instance the HDDs had far more space than was necessary and were RAIDed for performance. As a result, just two SSDs could replace 8 HDDs and did not require a RAID controller. So in this case SSD was cheaper and provided far superior random i/o performance for the DB storage. This is not always the case, but SSD is definitely proving its worth for server applications.

SSD for booting the OS and hosting VM Images, spinning rust RAID 5 (WD Red) for all other data.

Our lab's linux server is used for Hadoop experiments, HDD is fair enough

i tested SSD the performance and its very fast and open page very fastly


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Primary server is an old laptop so its currently hdd due to only one hdd slot and needing space as its my backup/vm server.
Primary laptop is now SSD, it boots and installs packages maybe twice as fast as the hdd but wasn't a major difference. Just worked out that the laptop was small enough to have a 1.8" hdd which are more $ than 2.5" and 3.5" so the cost increase to an ssd wasn't that much more.
The server is using 75% of a 1TB drive currently.

I just built mine recently. 120gb ssd with a 10gb / and 110gb /var. KVM vms on /var. 1tb spinner for data stuff and backups. I got an ssd more out of habit than anything. I don't reboot the thing often except when the power goes out which is rare. I came in way under budget building this server including the ssd so it worked out nicely in the end either way.


For record in regards to size. I have a grand total of 8gb of data to worry about, that is all that I backup. That includes my apt cache. So I could have gone bigger but the spinner will die before I fill it. Is just a file server + toying around with KVM.

my internal drive is ide but lately i've been mostly using live-usb's so not sure what to vote ?

currently my server is exclusive sATA III, my next 2 upgrades will be adding a SSD for the OS and maxing the RAM so I can move to zfs file system.