Which ssd drives to choose for a terminal server?

Question

Solid State Drives

Another terminal server will be deployed on the hyper.
Hyper i7-3930k 64RAM.
Terminal Server: Up to 10 people. Will use: 1C, office suite and browser.
There are only 2 ssd manufacturers in the server: OCZ-VERTEX3, Plextor PX-256M6S.
In principle, you can take them. But I think it is necessary to use not desktop disks, but server ones.
What models to consider? I will be very grateful.

Answer 1

In this case, it makes little sense to overpay for server disks.
The recording volume is small, desktop ones will work fine.
For reliability, it is desirable to leave about 20GB of unallocated space on the disks.
Models of any well-known manufacturers - you can look at samsungs, intels, kingstons, and the manufacturers you mentioned are very good
. Server disks differ from desktop disks in three ways
- 1) A large amount of reserve - this eliminates brakes during recording, less dependence on trim, alignment works much better , well, as a bonus, a larger resource. But the reserve is not difficult to make yourself.
2) A more efficient processor, and more RAM - the garbage collector just works faster, in this case, huge volumes for recording are not expected and this is simply unnecessary.
3) Optimization for server tasks - work with a large queue of requests, work in raid, but here again the mode of use is closer to desktop.

Answer 2

Server SSDs are also different.
Today, for most applications, desktop and server hard drives differ in only one thing: performance stability. A simple example: many users complain about the degradation of OCZ-VERTEX3 performance in terms of IOPS over time, while the "server" Intel s3500, although designed for a predominant read load, will maintain stable performance.
Even the lousiest consumer SSDs with TLC chips now show decent write endurance, so it’s better not to consider server drives with SLC either. MLC is perfect, TLC is fine.
I have similar tasks, though there are more users. From myself I can recommend Intel s3500 and Samsung 850 PRO. These are two models of disks that I personally had a chance to check with time, and in which I am 100% sure. If there is very little money, you can take the Samsung 850 EVO: they are slower and do not have "server" stability, but even in a completely degraded state, I have not seen less than 3k IOPS from them - this is enough for you.
"Cool" "server" SSDs are not needed. SLC is also not needed. I recommend Intel s3500/s3610, Samsung 850 PRO. If there is no money, then you can Samsung 850 EVO.