james__bean
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- Jun 19, 2004
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I'm putting a Core i7 system together for running some virtual machines for work. I'll probably be using Workstation 6.5 on either Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2. I'll be running anywhere from 2-3 VMs at a time and my biggest concern is being able to boot these virtual machines as quickly as possible. I plan on raiding at least three SSDs, but probably more like 4-5. I figure Intel has more i/o but the Indilinx have much better sequential write performance, which may come in handy if I decided to utilize a ram drive. I'm just curious if anyone has done any testing with SSDs and which SSD controller (Intel/Barefoot) would be best for virtual machine usage.