Which SSD as VMware ESXi datastore?

[glideFX]

I need a couple of SSD's for my storage server, they will be used as datastore volume, exported via iSCSI.
They will run 5-6 VM's, vCenter Server included.

Since this is my home-lab environment I don't need extreme performance or endurance, I just want something I can put in the server and let it work (possibly) for years.

My first choice was the MX100 512GB (because the price/performance ratio) but I read about some firmware issues..
Now I'm more oriented to the SanDisk Extreme Pro 480GB ore the intel 530 480GB

What do you suggest?

 

[thecoolnessrune]

I need a couple of SSD's for my storage server, they will be used as datastore volume, exported via iSCSI.
They will run 5-6 VM's, vCenter Server included.

Since this is my home-lab environment I don't need extreme performance or endurance, I just want something I can put in the server and let it work (possibly) for years.

My first choice was the MX100 512GB (because the price/performance ratio) but I read about some firmware issues..
Now I'm more oriented to the SanDisk Extreme Pro 480GB ore the intel 530 480GB

What do you suggest?

What is your Storage server running? Intel SSDs tend to work very well in pseudo-commercial (home lab) rollouts, but sometimes problems are unavoidable. With the exception of Hyper-V for instance, no hypervisor supports TRIM, instead sticking with the commercial stuff (the SCSI UNMAP command that would be supported on all SAS SSDs). If you plan to run the SSDs on a virtualized datastore performance degradation may be unavoidable.

If your Storage server is a Windows box, then you can run almost anything, as the native drivers in the Windows environment should give you compatibility with almost anything. A full Linux box would also be fine with almost anything you put in it

 

[imagoon]

If this is home and you are.... cough... using enterprise. Install the SSD as an SSD cache and let ESXi manage it.

 

[Emulex]

Samsung 840 PRO or 850 PRO with 30% OP is solid without trim. I rock 8 servers full of these drives under raid-1 with spanning using lsi megaraid controllers (4 per controller max!) rock fucking solid!