SSD Data drives

[pcslookout]

Is there any point in using a SSD as a data drive ?

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Depends on the data.

 

[pcslookout]

Depends on the data.

What kind of data benefits being on a SSD ?

 

[Elixer]

What kind of data benefits being on a SSD ?

Depends on the program that is accessing it.
Like, if it is a streaming game...or you need stuff to load faster, or...or...

 

[dave_the_nerd]

What kind of data benefits being on a SSD ?

Whatever data you want to go faster.

Like, say, databases.

What did you have in mind?

 

[corkyg]

In my laptop, all data is on a SSD. Why not?

 

[Sheep221]

Is there any point in using a SSD as a data drive ?

I'm using 2 SSDs in my desktop, honestly I even don't care about speed that much, more or less the convenience of NOT to have to hear mechanical HDD is what is important for me and so I did choose SSD as my storage/user data drive.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Interesting question, since the HDD makers keep producing bigger HDDs, and probably beyond the capacity for many to use that much space.

Let me take an inventory . . . I've fitted most of our machines with StarTech hot-swap SATA bays and caddies . . . . I count seven caddies with HDDs ranging in size from 500GB to 1TB. And they don't get a lot of use, since our WHS-2011 server seems to take care of client-workstation backups with great reliability.

There are ways to make HDDs more quiet. There are ways to cache an HDD or array to an SSD or to RAM or both -- even (and no less) on a server.

So while I agree with corkyg about our laptops, I think that I will still provision an HDD for use in my Z170 system when I get around to building it.

How many folks have HTPCs? And how many of those simply allow a gaming system to do double-duty as an HTPC? If you record a lot of TV shows and movies, are you going to put "the data" on an SSD? I think not. You wouldn't even bother to use a caching solution to speed up an HDD used for that purpose.

 

[yinan]

I use SSDs for everything except backups. All data resides on SSD 🙂 Why would I waste 10Gb Ethernet on spinning disks.

I even have a M.2 disk in an ESXi host 🙂

 

[frowertr]

Yeah, I'm using flash for everything now including production servers unless I'm building out a DVR camera system for a client that needs long retention periods. Everything else is flash now for me...