I run a Dell Studio with two 750GB SATA drives in RAID 0. Be sure you have good backups if you go with that RAID config. One drive goes, bye-bye data. I have a single quad core intel and 8GB RAM. I'm able to run 5-6 concurrent VMs using VMWare Server 2. It's a little sluggish but it was cheap system.
If you go with SSDs for the OS (and presumably VMs), stick with RAID 1. The performance of SSD over mechanical drives is so much better you don't really need the added benefit of striping. For the SATA drives pick a drive size that gives you the capacity you want and use RAID 1. - Sean On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Mark Smith <winsysad...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm looking at building a server/workstation for home. > Workload will mostly be Hyper-V and movie editing. > Would like suggestions on best bang-for-the-buck disk subsystem. > Such as single SSD or RAID 0 SSD's for OS and single SATA or RAID 0 SATA's > for storage? > M/B I'm looking at has 6 SATA II connectors and supports RAID 0,1 and 10. > > Thanks in advance! > > > ~ 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 > ~ 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
