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I need some advice on dedicated servers SSD NVMe vs HDD SAS (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello guys, I'm going to buy a dedicated server today, but I don't know what option to choose:

2× 1.92TB SSD NVMe Soft RAID

2× 14TB HDD SAS Soft RAID

The disk space is not important for me. I know that SSD NVMe is better, but is there any BIG difference with HDD SAS? This server is just to host one website with low traffic (less 1TB per month)

Can someone help me?

Thanks

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

First of all I have to drop a sanity check on you: do you NEED to buy a dedicated server to host one low traffic website?!?! Don’t waste your money on dedicated hardware if you have no use for it, the world doesn’t need the additional future e-waste as it is.

Secondly to actually answer your question - all things being equal, if storage size doesn’t matter to you (lucky), then go for the faster storage. Just keep in mind that you will more than likely be running RAID 1 aka mirroring. So you will end up with only the capacity of 1 of the drives as your total available storage pool.

Good luck. (You don’t need a server for a single website, don’t be foolish)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

First of all I have to drop a sanity check on you: do you NEED to buy a dedicated server to host one low traffic website?!?!

If anything I would avoid running my own public webserver at all. I gladly pay a hoster a few bucks a year or month to take care of this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

100% - couldn’t agree with you more.