Hello All,
I am going to be purchasing a set of hard drives and a raid card to move my virtual machines to and I am having a difficult time deciding on what speed drives to get.
I am running Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2 and have about 6 or 7 vm's.
My question is would there be a noticeable boost in performance if I bought 4 Western Digital VelociRaptor WD1500HLFS 150GB 10000 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s vs say 4 hitachi 7200 RPM drives in a Raid 5 on a HighPoint RocketRAID 4320 raid card?
I guess the biggest I/O hogs I am running on my vm box are an Exchange 2010 server and a small MySQL database for a website. My main concern is that the hitachi drives would be half the price of the 4 VelociRaptor drives, but the VelciRaptor's have a much better average seek time @ 4.2ms then the Hitachi's @ 8.5ms. Thanks for you help guys.
PS. This is a home lab type setup not an enterprise.
-Brad
I am going to be purchasing a set of hard drives and a raid card to move my virtual machines to and I am having a difficult time deciding on what speed drives to get.
I am running Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2 and have about 6 or 7 vm's.
My question is would there be a noticeable boost in performance if I bought 4 Western Digital VelociRaptor WD1500HLFS 150GB 10000 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s vs say 4 hitachi 7200 RPM drives in a Raid 5 on a HighPoint RocketRAID 4320 raid card?
I guess the biggest I/O hogs I am running on my vm box are an Exchange 2010 server and a small MySQL database for a website. My main concern is that the hitachi drives would be half the price of the 4 VelociRaptor drives, but the VelciRaptor's have a much better average seek time @ 4.2ms then the Hitachi's @ 8.5ms. Thanks for you help guys.
PS. This is a home lab type setup not an enterprise.
-Brad