On 1/6/13 12:40 PM, Phillip Hellewell wrote:
It sounds like a mix of SSD and regular HD could be smart, but if I have plenty of RAM and a few HDs with RAID, do I really need SSD? BTW, can anyone tell me why 10,000 RPM SATA drives are so much more expensive than 7200 RPM?
It depends on your use case. 10K SATA drives are enterprise drives, so they have a very different price point (plus they're faster). Even if you do 7200, I'd recommend enterprise drives for a server. They do better in RAID arrays.
However, the only reason I'd get something besides an SSD for your server these days are if you need lots of space. You may not need the performance, but they are silent and cool.
Regarding the Atom processors, they're just a low-energy x86_64 processor. Depending on the motherboard chipset, you may only be able to use 32-bit though. The SuperMicro one supports 64-bit -- assuming it's the same one I've got.
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