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SSD Upgrade Help

by Feb 2, 2015 8:04AM PST

Hey all, I want to slowly upgrade my server starting by upgrading the boot drive to one of these PCIe SSD drives: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JXKIEMO

My goal is to enable faster intake and general task handling. I'm ready to go ahead and make the purchase, but I can't tell if I'll be able to fit it into my chassis. Any opinions on this? I'm using this 2U chassis: http://www.dynapowerusa.com/dyna/ASP/RM_2U_EJ-2U576-C.asp

And this motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128499

Can I do it with just a riser card or maybe a ribbon riser? or will this require some more intricate fab work?

Note: This post was edited by a forum moderator to simplify Amazon url on 02/09/2015 at 8:47 AM PT

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That's a bold statement.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Feb 2, 2015 8:11AM PST

For years I found more RAM and better bandwidth to the server to pay off over a faster HDD. That is, I rarely find the speed to the server to be faster than even old SATA drives.

Are you saying your connection to the server is many GB per second?
Bob

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Re: upgrade server
by Forum moderator Feb 7, 2015 7:18PM PST

Replacing the boot drive by an SSD would certainly make it boot faster. But during the boot it isn't acting as a server yet, so that wouldn't help to make it a faster server. And since a server usually is only rarely booted (once a month on the average?) it seems kind of a waste of money to make that faster.

Depending on what the server is used for, what other stuff is on the boot drive, the location of virtual memory and the amount of RAM in relation to the job mix, replacing it by an SSD could make a difference.
But let's say it's a database server with the database on a slow hard disk. Then adding a lot of RAM, replacing that hard disk by a SCSI drive and optimising the database and the queries will all make much more sense than replacing the boot drive, which is hardly used during normal operation.

Kees

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