SSD as bootdrive

[Antangin_JRG]

yesterday my fileserver has just fucked up, i wake up this morning to check the file transfer progress , but when i turn on the monitor, it's displaying a motherboard version, BIOS version, and bla bla bla before the bootscreen come up. I think i want to upgrade my fileserver, it has a small space, i'm going to buy 2 SATA controller(2+1 ports), buy 4 500gb HDD and use raid-5.
Currently there's 1 drive (320gb) attached on the server, i think it's too big for the boot drive. I see a kingston SSDnow 30gb, and i think i'll  buy that for the boot drive, but i'm not sure if it's suitable for a boot drive, how do ya think about it? 

[Dr_dog]

fuck that SSD, they aint made for server use. it has limited writes so it should be read-only. And you can do the same with 16GB USB stick in your server's ass. just smack some ubuntu with lamp, samba FTP etc. or then get freenas. 16GB is probably overkill for freenas. 2-4 GB is enough for freenas

[Antangin_JRG]

fuck that SSD, they aint made for server use. it has limited writes so it should be read-only. And you can do the same with 16GB USB stick in your server's ass. just smack some ubuntu with lamp, samba FTP etc. or then get freenas. 16GB is probably overkill for freenas. 2-4 GB is enough for freenas

hmmm... i think i'll stay on windows, but, the server is not 24/7 running, it's still possible to have SSD, OR if i use a USB stick, it will not blow up?

[Dr_dog]

hmmm... i think i'll stay on windows, but, the server is not 24/7 running, it's still possible to have SSD, OR if i use a USB stick, it will not blow up?

eewww windows as server OS? hogs up 1/3 of all resources available. I wouldnt still go for SSD, remember, if you run it as fileserver. You dont need fast drive for OS as it will be loaded in RAM most of the time of the whole life of the server. just use that old drive for boot drive and some mandatory programs you wish to use. What i would do is put money on RAM and processor not SSDs

[Antangin_JRG]

hmmm... i think i'll stay on windows, but, the server is not 24/7 running, it's still possible to have SSD, OR if i use a USB stick, it will not blow up?

eewww windows as server OS? hogs up 1/3 of all resources available. I wouldnt still go for SSD, remember, if you run it as fileserver. You dont need fast drive for OS as it will be loaded in RAM most of the time of the whole life of the server. just use that old drive for boot drive and some mandatory programs you wish to use. What i would do is put money on RAM and processor not SSDs

hmmm... i think ill use ubuntu, but i think... 320gb is way to big for it...

[Dr_dog]

USB STICKS! Just get a 4 or 8GB usb stick, install ubuntu to that and make it so that it will save configs to it too. Then boot off USB always or buy a 80GB sata/IDE drive. They are only 30€ here

[Antangin_JRG]

hmmm... my server cant boot from USB stick, i think ill try to power up my 80gb HDD again... it say primary master fail bla bla bla....

[Dr_dog]

is the jumpers set correctly?

[Antangin_JRG]

is the jumpers set correctly?

yes it is, but it runs as an external

[Dr_dog]

how you mean it runs external? its external hard drive connected with USB? and you said your mobo dont support USB booting up. So it wont work with USB hard drives either

[Antangin_JRG]

how you mean it runs external? its external hard drive connected with USB? and you said your mobo dont support USB booting up. So it wont work with USB hard drives either

sss.... its unpowered now, but i'll try power it up as primary, + currently, it CAN run as EXTERNAL

[Dr_dog]

rip it off from the casing and stick it inside your server and set it as master