Is the X25 the right SSD for a fileserver serving 3 client PCs in an office environment? Currently using a 74 gig Raptor with one partition for OS and the other for data. Will fit perfectly on the X25-M 80 gig.
No matter what you have, at least get two drives. I don't see how you can run without redundancy in an office environment. Are you doing backups at least daily?
Just a thought, 3 clients... you might as well run a standard hard drive or two. Running 2x 1TB drives will let you do client backups to the server + mirror all of the server data, and most likely cost less than one SSD. Heck you could probably Raid 5 3x 1TB drives if you needed more throughput. Plus, with only 3 clients running to a server off 1-2 GigE ports, an SSD probably isn't going to make a huge difference.
Originally posted by: Lite Beer
Is the X25 the right SSD for a fileserver serving 3 client PCs in an office environment? Currently using a 74 gig Raptor with one partition for OS and the other for data. Will fit perfectly on the X25-M 80 gig.
It might work just as well to use 2 really big conventional hard drives. Even cheap hard drives are ridiculously fast if you buy a really big one (think data density). Sure your 74gb raptor spins at 10k rpm, but I assure you it's not any faster than a standard 7200rpm 1TB drive you can get for $100 on newegg. If you're really hard core and quality is top priority, 1TB Western Digital RE3 drives are $160 on newegg. Two of those in Raid 1 would work great.
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