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almost 1TB for <200 USD. Pity the Aussie peso has fallen so low.
OCZ Trion 100 960GB SSD - US$205.41 Delivered (~AU$286.35) @ Amazon US
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thanks (I got distracted before doing the conversion)
Are these still having reliability issues?
They have issues with transferring massive files, but will still wipe the floor with an HDD for other tasks. Nice as a Steam game drive.
+1 for peso
Man, if I had a 10GbE network, I would chuck 4 of these in my server…
I would chuck them in anyway just so it was dead silent but I need 3tb++ so it will be a wait..
I need 16TB, so i will wait a little longer….
haha I meant 4x 3tb drives
Hah. Dead silent. The LGA771 Air Coolers on my Dual Xeons sound like jet engines.
haha that is quite a step up from my atom based NAS
@rapoot6: If Emby and Plex transcoding wasn't so intense, I could survive with just a nice little NAS (we have one too for backups). Capped my old server with an i5 750 @ 100% whenever it transcoded stuff, so I took a leap of faith and went balls to the walls with a couple of older Xeons… 8 cores of goodness.
LOL
Never thought about that. Probably a thing… but I've never thought about it, and I've got ~10 drives in my case at any one point. CPU/GPU/PSU fans making all the noise for me.For my Synology Ds415+ (Pathetic Intel Atom haha), there is no noise at all when I have used SSDs as the atom barely needs any active cooling. The hard drives make annoying seek noises when someone decides to search the server or multiple people hit it :/
are SSDs that much beneficial to servers? even if they were super fast (assuming that's the main reason), you're limited to the ethernet speed.
Mainly for random access. So unless your family is smashing your server constantly for different stuff at the same time… not much gain.
SSDs are useful for servers in the way they're useful for PCs, notably random access. Whilst SSDs do offer blazing sequential access, they're actually not that much faster than most hard drives. Most top-end hard drives can hit 200 MB/s, and in RAID0 can approach 400 MB/s. SSDs offer around 520 MB/s sequential. That's not a huge improvement. Where SSDs are much better is random access, they're many, many (we're talking hundreds of times) faster than HDDs for this. This is why Windows boots faster and things feel more responsive. For something like a database server or even a general work server, they'll benefit greatly. For something like media servers, the benefit won't be so large.
That said, 10Gbit ethernet is surprisingly affordable these days. For less than $70 or so, you can grab an old dual-port 10Gbit ethernet NICs on eBay. If you're a video editing studio or something along those lines with 5 clients, grab 3x of these for the server (total of 6 ports), using the server as a switch, and then 5x for the clients. So for a total of $560, you've got an enterprise class network solution which exceeds SATA3 6Gbps speeds.
this is very interesting and i didn't know this. thanks.
combine with this for $5 extra credit (if you're eligible):
http://slickdeals.net/f/8523273-get-a-5-credit-for-reloading…Amazon tells me "This item does not ship to *******, Australia. Please check other sellers who may ship internationally." so I would guess maybe only available if you use a forwarding agent??
so $297 AUD delivered.