>
> 2. What do people suggest for speediness and reliability? I run a
> 30-seat fat client lab, so the server hard drive only gets used for
> DHCP, loading the OS, programs, authentication, and routing internet
> to the clients. Should I consider an SSD (if I put /tmp and /var on
> some other drive) or is it not worth it? Same question with so-called
> "enterprise" drives? Are they worth the increased cost or should I
> just get a well-regarded consumer drive?
>
If the disk image the clients boot off fits into RAM, it will be cached
anyway, so I wouldn't bother getting an SSD.
And if I still got an SSD, I wouldn't bother putting /tmp and /var
somewhere else. Hell, most users have the swapfile on the SSD, they
hopefully can take a few logfiles by now.
Jakob
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