Yeah, they replaced my 6 year old laptop to one with SSD.  I went from a 5 
minute boot to less than a minute.  I used to be able to get a cup of coffee 
while I was waiting for the old one!  :)
I'm still leery about the MTBF so I'm planning on frequent backups.

-Paul

From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 9:17 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: SSD and 2008 R2 Hyper-V, SAS vs. SATA SSD

Some of you may remember I fought a little with putting an SSD drive in my old 
home lab PowerEdge 840 but I did finally get it to work. I've been running 2008 
R2 Hyper-V server on SSD for about a week now and all I can say is holy crap! 
The boot times (compared to the previous platter SATA drives) are insane. I had 
no idea a server OS could boot so fast! I haven't timed it, but I'd guess it's 
less than 10 seconds from the end of POST to me being able to RDP to it.

My question is....for a 50-user production server which would be faster - SAS 
or SATA SSD for the OS? Something I find little discussion on in the controller 
architecture (SATA SSD's vs. SAS disks) and performance with varying levels 
concurrent client connections. SATA drives now have NCQ, does this 
negate/mitigate the traditional SCSI advantage?
David Lum
Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM
Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764


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