I bought my first SSD in 2009 - other than bulk storage, I won't be buying regular mechanical drives. All my laptops and desktops have SSDs, plus I put a couple into each Microserver, and a couple into my QNAP SS429 NAS. For my work laptop, I've divided my VMs between the onboard SSD, and an external 512GB Crucial M4. The performance gain is just amazing
From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Thursday, 5 April 2012 10:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: recommendations on home server Well the Neo's _ARE_ beefier than an Atom from a horsepower perspective, as well as supporting VT extensions... I certainly agree on the SSD's however. I can tell a pretty dramatic difference with unit I have. -sc From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com]<mailto:[mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com]> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 12:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: recommendations on home server Yeah, it's an AMD dual-core Neo, but since no one seems to know what that is, I've given up trying to explain it :) Atom seems to have more recognition. FWIW, my team has another one of these sitting in the office (again because it's quiet/cool). It's running SharePoint 2010 with about 6-7GB of documents, which we access using SharePoint Workspace and Outlook. For BAU, I don't think the CPU gets much above 5% I did a quick check on my server at home, and Perfmon.exe was using more CPU than anything else :) I ran a few admin tools, copied some files, checked the spam filters etc. Exchange is receiving around 50,000 messages/day (>99% spam :)), yet the VM is using about 3% of the host's CPU. Given that we used to run these things on 500Mhz or lower specced servers, I think CPUs running at 1.3Ghz (or more) these days, should provide sufficient grunt for server Ops. IMHO disk is the biggest bottleneck. Put a couple of SSDs into your server and see what happens. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised :) Cheers Ken ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
