SSD Drive size for Client/Server

[panteragstk]

Originally Posted by stevech

I opt'd to use a 64GB SSD for the boot disk and put all data on local or network drives. Haven't used half the SSD yet.

For my server I have only used 20gb of drive space, but it is xp. My HTPC only uses 25gb, so in theory a 60gb drive for both would work, but I'm all for preparing for the future so 120gb minimum for new drives.

[stevech]

Ah hindsight.

I clone the boot drive every month or so to a different drive so that target is immediately bootable.
I also drive image and SecondCopy Sage (and other) directories.

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by panteragstk

For my server I have only used 20gb of drive space, but it is xp. My HTPC only uses 25gb, so in theory a 60gb drive for both would work, but I'm all for preparing for the future so 120gb minimum for new drives.

You can keep a pretty trim system in Win 7 as well. Just did a backup of my C: drive i'm using only 14.8 GB right now and once its compressed and optimized the backup itself is only 5.7 GB

[Savage1701]

Originally Posted by panteragstk

The sandforce drives will automatically leave spare area. The 120gb drives are actually 128gb drives that leave an extra 8gb. The 240gb drives are 256gb drives.

So day before yesterday some moron decided to go across a median and take out a telephone pole and knock out my electricity. I have my htpc and server on a ups (each on their own) but for some reason my htpc will no longer boot. It thinks my ssd is corrupt. It can read it just fine, but it can't repair it and refuses to boot. WTF? Right after I fix EVERY issue I've ever had with sage v7 this happens. Not cool. So I copied all of the sage directory of the "corrupt" ssd so I can format and reinstall. Hopefully all of the experience with decoders and everything else will pay off and it will just work.

Anyone got any ideas to restore this back to working condition without a reinstall?

Right, I was referring to leaving additional flash - overprovisioning - above and beyond the 8GB already reserved. I do this with mine. Enterprise-class drives, which is really what we are asking most of our 24x7x365 Sage Servers to be, would typically have overprovisioning of 37%. Sparing out 8GB is about 7% reserve.

I've had similar issues to your power failure messing up the SSD. I hate to say it, but as long as you can read from the SSD that's a really good sign the SSD is ok hardware-wise but, unfortunately, you may have to re-install.

One thing-did the power failure alter any BIOS settings or cause you MB to look to a secondary BIOS? For example, if your drive was set to AHCI and your MB defaulted back to SATA as IDE, that would stop it from booting. Or could it have gotten moved down the chain of boot devices? Just a couple things to check before a re-install. I've had power failure screw up my MB settings and then they just default back to factory settings, for example.

[panteragstk]

Originally Posted by stevech

Ah hindsight.

I clone the boot drive every month or so to a different drive so that target is immediately bootable.
I also drive image and SecondCopy Sage (and other) directories.

Yeah, well I had gotten behind on my backups. The newest one was too old, but oh well. I guess quite a few files were corrupt, because there were quite a few files missing. Everything has been reinstalled now and is ok. I'm going to make an image later today.

[stevech]

SecondCopy automates my backups of critical data files, financial info, photos, in between imaging and cloning.

[panteragstk]

Originally Posted by stevech

SecondCopy automates my backups of critical data files, financial info, photos, in between imaging and cloning.

Thanks, I needed that. I knew there was something that did that, but I couldn't remember.

[stevech]

SecondCopy is reliable and cheap.

[Zuhkov]

One just announced option worth considering:

60GB OCZ Agility 3

MSRP $135 for near Vertex 3 levels of performance (based on OCZ claims, haven't seen any reviews yet).

Is it overkill speed-wise? Probably, but you're not likely to be here unless you're pretty good at rationalization, so...