Whats the best HDD for my server then, backups go on my NAS which is a seperate machine so all this one hosts is DarkRP and future minecraft
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well you should be using a ssd for minecraft. as for gmod, you can use a normal hdd as a ssd is overrated for it, go with the WD black. in end, buy both wd black and a ssd, keep both game servers on seperate hdds.
A 256GB SSD will have more than enough space for GMod and Minecraft. Crucial MX100s are pretty inexpensive and plenty fast.
[QUOTE=FrankPetrov;46364722]well you should be using a ssd for minecraft. as for gmod, you can use a normal hdd as a ssd is overrated for it, go with the WD black. in end, buy both wd black and a ssd, keep both game servers on seperate hdds.[/QUOTE]
Minecraft is about as bad for a SSD as putting a swapfile on it.
The best solution for a MC server is using a RAM disk with a rsync to a nonvolatile storage medium like a SSD or mechanical drive every 15-60 minutes.
And if you want to get even more creative, you can create a RAM disk using VRAM on a discrete video card if you don't want to rob system memory. It's more expensive, but generally as fast or faster than system memory (depending on the GPU used.) I made a 256M VRAM disk on a Geforce 7300LE and got sustained ~900 MB/s reads and writes with less than 1ms latency.
[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;46365483]And if you want to get even more creative, you can create a RAM disk using VRAM on a discrete video card if you don't want to rob system memory. It's more expensive, but generally as fast or faster than system memory (depending on the GPU used.) I made a 256M VRAM disk on a Geforce 7300LE and got sustained ~900 MB/s reads and writes with less than 1ms latency.[/QUOTE]
I have never heard anyone using VRAM as a ramdisk. What software did you use for that?
Only works on Linux.
[url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/swap_on_video_ram[/url]
[url]http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/TIP_Use_memory_on_video_card_as_swap[/url]
But instead of making a swap, you make an ext2, 3, 4, etc. partition. You have to be careful when doing this because you can easily start reading/writing to illegal memory locations and cause erratic behavior.
The best solution is to have two video cards in the machine and put the swap/RAM disk on the card not being used. Keep in mind that this is only for PCIe based video cards. While PCI and AGP cards will [I]technically[/I] work, memory access will be very slow.
PCI is limited to 133 MB/s, but it will be much slower due to being a shared bus. In addition the video RAM is accessed through the GPU so that's a further performance penalty.
And while AGP is faster (2133 MB/s for AGP 8x) it's not designed for bidirectional data transfers. Writes will be fast but reads will be very slow. I benched a GF7900GS and got like 8-12 mb/s read while writes were in the several hundred mb/s range.
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