I've tried a few SSDs out at this point. OCZs have failed on me, Corsairs have been solid and reliable. Intels are also purportedly very reliable, especially their enterprisey ones, but they're a bundle more expensive - Corsair are a good middle ground as far as I can tell.
They certainly run cooler, though not by a lot - I have thermal monitoring on all my drives (thin-wire thermocouples attached with thermal compound to the top of the disk) and they're all around 40c, HDD or SSD, with an ambient case temp of 25c. If you want a big noise reduction, make sure you replace the stock CPU cooler with something larger - Zalman do some great aircoolers which run slow and quiet, or you could go for a Corsair H50, which will keep an i5 dead cold but is pretty damn quiet. Depends how you feel on closed-loop watercooling... :-) I'd go for a SATAIII drive like the Corsair Force 3 at this stage. They're stupid fast, don't cost much more than the SATAII equivalents (and if you're buying a motherboard in this day and age it'll have SATAIII anyway), and are just faster than anything I've ever used before. I'm currently using a Force 3 as my desktop's primary, a 120GB disk. I'd put everything except /var/snd on SSDs - what's the downside? Just make sure your OS/FS supports TRIM, of course... James On 24/01/2012 20:08, Bill Putney wrote: > We're moving to 2.1.2 (at last). I need to upgrade one of our machines > to a dual core 64 bit machine and I'm thinking of other things we might > do to improve things. > > It seems like the Rivendell client machines would be quite happy on a 60 > GB drive (except for the /var/snd which lives on the server). 60 GB SSD > drives are under $100 these days and I'm thinking that the reduction of > heat and increase in speed might make them good choices for the client > machines. They should also be quieter than even the quietest spinning > drive. Reduction in the heat load in the boxes might mean that the smart > fans will spin a little slower further reducing noise. > > I am thinking that if there isn't a downside, making the server > root/boot drive an SSD too might be a good thing to do just because it > might be faster and make database look ups quicker. The /var/snd volume > will stay a big spinning drive RAID-5 (or Raid-Z) array of expensive > enterprise class drives. > > Any thoughts or experiences would be appreciated. Any drives to stay > away from? Any that have worked well? I saw a comment by one user that > said that they had an SSD drive that was lightning fast except for the > twice a day when it took 15 second to do some internal function. Clearly > that's not something I want to have in the automation system. > > Bill Putney - KPTZ Port Townsend, WA > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
