Solid State Hard Drive

FreePBX Tips and Tricks
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I am planning to do some proactive maintenance of our 3+ year old asterisk/freepbx server.

The main thing I’m planning to do is to replace the hard drive. I am considering a solid state drive. like this one:

http://biz.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5256782&sku=I69-7011

Any Ideas?

Bill

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Bill, I dunno. Seems you could get two 80GB and mirror them for that price. Also, are you replacing a 3.5 inch drive ? If so would you not need a 3.5 to 2.5 cage adapter ?

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Well, Actually, I was going to get 2 and mirror them. Yep, aware of the needed adapter.

BF

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Just keep in mind that you can only write the same sector of the drive a specific number of times before the sector becomes unwritable causing performance degradation and potential data loss. We had one of these drives in a Windows 2003 server with the drive chewing through 1%/week. Depending on how you use your system and expectations for long term stability and performance you may want to stay with a spinning platter.