SSD or Flash Drive, small home server
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Yep, i have 850 EVO 250gb, in my main rig, will some dirty cheap ssd for like 20bucks, 16gb be ok? ;D
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will some dirty cheap ssd for like 20bucks, 16gb be ok?
If you are really sure that they are supporting TRIM you could test it out,
if not I would be aware to use this than, because the data that will be wiped
will not be marked as for rewrite and than often the SSD will slow down after
a while and/or will dieing faster. It is not a must be more a can be. -
What about this one?
Will 16gb be enough?
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What about this one?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/FASTDISK-SSD-16GB-SATAII-2-5-Solid-State-Drive-Flash-MLC-Storage-Device-/201385280443?hash=item2ee37f83bb:g:mn8AAOSwWnFV97Ws
Is it supporting TRIM?
Will 16gb be enough?
How many and which packets?
What you all want to install on the disk?
Do you want to run Squid as a cache Proxy? -
No. 3-5 mb/s is not fast enough.
I'm running an 8GB version of this and get about 20 MB/s on USB 2.0 port.
Lexar
JumpDrive S75 USB 3.0 Flash Drive, 16GB
http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/605246/Lexar-JumpDrive-S75-USB-30-Flash/ -
Im running nothing fancy basic installiation, no cache or something, maybe few packages.
O the other hand flash drive will it be enough like 20mb/s, for some heavy packet logging, cause i have dedicated server box, server, 50 players, and web server.
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Recommend also enabling /tmp & /var ramdisk with periodic backup a few times a day. I have RRD set for 9 hours and DHCP set for 7 hours.
Yeah I don't run any packages to speak of. VPN client config wizard is only thing I really have need of.
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Yeah I don't run any packages to speak of. VPN client config wizard is only thing I really have need of.
Then the NanoBSD version would perhaps the best way to walk on, but if the performance is not
so great or more is needed the DOM-SSD or SATA-DOM is also a fast and tiny way to go, for sure
not same cheap as with a USB pen drive but also as a small install. -
I've always run the full install on USB flash drive. Enable RAM disk and it doesn't hit the drive much.
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This question has been addressed in the past. Don't go with cheap SSD unless you are using SLC type, industrial grade. Find out the write cycle life of you SSD. I've had cheap SSD die on me using Windows7. When you install the full version of pfSense it writes to the drive constantly logging the graphs and other stuff (sorry I'm no expert).
When you run the nano version (compact flash & usb) it is ran from RAM. Everything is loaded from the flash drive into ram at boot and after boot, the running OS exist in RAM. So the intense disk using features of pfSense are turned OFF in nano version. There is an option in pfSense where you can offload logging into a log server.
If you go with a cheap SSD, you can always turn off logging, follow the guide here:
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=34381.0