2012-10-25, 08:00
(2012-10-24, 23:00)smitopher Wrote:(2012-10-24, 22:37)RaggSokk3n Wrote:Yup. Microsquash recommends the minimum is 60 GB and all shared storage should not be on the boot/OS drive. A 120 GB SSD is plenty big and makes the software portion of the boot fast... but... My server POST takes 5 times longer than the OS boot. I leave my server running 24/7 so not really too big an issue. I really do not miss having a SSD boot drive. My boot drive was part of the newegg "bundle" and I actually have it partitioned into 2 boot drives. One with Windows Home Server 2011 (60 GB) and the second partition for the rest booting Windows Server 2012 Essentials.(2012-10-24, 20:01)smitopher Wrote: I'm running Windows Server 2012 Essentials on a HP ProLiant ML110 G7 server I bought from newegg. It has a Intel Core i3 2120 3.3GHz, 10 GB of ram and 10 TB of storage (boots from a 256 gb drive, 2 3TB Seagates and 1 4TB Hatachi). I have been pleased with it.
Your proposed HW looks reasonable as far as the CPU, RAM and Disks go. I'd consider a small boot drive and dedicate all 8 drives to a storage space. WS2012 storage spaces are easy to set up and very flexible but you can not boot from them.
Ok som separate boot drive, ssd or hdd? will a 320gb Wd black 2,5 do the trick?
Ok, so how fast is ws2012? Will it handle stable 20mBs with smb?