Bit of techi advice chaps please.
 

I've a Dell T620 running a H710P RAID card. I need to squeeze another 2 years out of it (dell warranty until end of 2018).


I plan to wipe the machine and stick Server 2016 on it, so existing data is of no consequence.


It will be used as our company's CRM system (bespoke database running progress openedge), sage line 50 & will be our small document repository.


The plan is to either keep running on SAS 15k 300gb disks (raid 10) or swap them out for Samsung 950 Pro's (same setup). Due to budget constraints I simply can't afford SAS SSD's.


Thoughts on a postcard!

Not enough information about your use case to offer an informed decision. Have you considered cloud hosting - Azure, Amazon S3 for your document repo?

Live docs are in-house and mirrored using onedrive (circa 600gb)

One DB (progress openedge) with 20 users, 40K customer records & 15K product records - can't host externally.

Sage 50 only two users

RDP access upto 10 concurrent users

i think personally what you have now is probably enough. throw some more Memory in the server, or a bigger raid card with more cache ?

Is there any reason why your looking at faster drives, have they moaned at response and lookup times ?

The h710p was actually the upgrade (I've just put in this morning) from a H310 which in hindsight was utter garbage.

Read write has gone from:

508/365MB to 3003/2374MB

Adding a second CPU next week with another 32gb ram.

It was the dev complaining saying that his compiles were taking ages.

Given the improvement the raid card has brought I don't think SSD's will be necessary.

Thanks

J

agree

Back again . . .

So, thinking of punting out some money for 2 x SM863a 500GB disks to run in Raid 1 off the H710P.

Do I need to do anything clever with this setup, or should it "just work"? (IE the raid controller plays nice with SSD's?)

J