Hard drive setup

[gemcneill]

Hey guys I was looking around new egg and saw this

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227753&cm_sp=Cat_SSD-_-YTVideo-_-YT20-227-753

 

The main thing I like about it, is how many IOPS it has which is what game servers are smashed with (I think any way). Has anyone consider this?

 

George

[ECF]

Well the first thing that would come to my mind would be the bottleneck that the PCIE bus may cause.

 

Second would be the reliablity of SSDs. Last i heard they were not all that reliable over the long haul.

 

Just my $.02

[Lane]

I would highly suggest you stick with industry standards when you are hosting clients. Hybrid drives usually have a high rate of failures and also normally do not perform as well as one would think.

 

SSD's are complete overkill for game/voice hosting - unless you have a crap done of random reads (IE CDN hosting, image hosting, etc.) there is no reason to be running such things.

 

Keep in mind 90% of games run from RAM and only time they touch the drives are for config files, maps, logs and things like that - you want to make sure you have the overhead to extract files without causing issue, but no need for SSD's.

 

If you are hosting clients I would suggest you stick to SATA/SAS drives and a nice hardware raid card.

[ryanb213]

Standard Hdd's are the way to go right now, over time too many read and write cycles may cause damage to the SSD.

 

Especially a server that has lots of log files may be an issue.

[Monk]

Only bad thing about SATA drives is they (disks) do not support disconnected writes, which is a significant performance bottleneck when you are writing to the disk; only disconnected reads are supported. What this means is that, depending on your content, you could take a big performance hit for anything you write to cache.