6 Best SSD Moments

	using your notebook within seconds of grabbing it
	faster-than-realtime video editing
	almost instant program loading
	fast loading of large files and documents
	quick startup, hibernation, and shut down
	longer runtime on battery operated notebooks and netbooks

Best SSD Server Ever

Our last Server had Small Business Server 2008 installed on a single SSD, with an image backup done 4 times a day. The server itself was a low cost low power HP server, dual core AMD CPU, with 8GB of memory. The idea was to see if a small SSD boot drive alone can pick up server performance sufficiently to meet the needs as a useful workgroup server.  

Considering we kept the server as our production system for nearly a year shows that it did do the job. There were occasional moments, such as when we were forced to upgrade to a bigger 90GB SSD, but overall the low cost server worked OK. One of the limitations that wasn't easy to overcome was the maximum 8GB of memory. 

So we wanted more and to try something else. So this Spring we purchased a newer HP quad core AMD system and installed Windows Small Business Server 2011 on a PCIe SSD Card featuring 4 RAID 0 drives for a 160GB boot drive.  Fast is relative, but this drive rocks!  We installed another internal SSD for server storage, aand finally a 2.5" disk drive for network backup. Next we downsized our external backup drive. So out with the big 3.5" drive and external 115V power supply brick, and in with an extremely tiny 2.5" USB 3.0 connected, USB powered drive. Invisible, quiet, cool, it's so much nicer. Smaller better stuff means less heat, noise, and space needed. Win-win-win

One of the best unintended consequences we encountered is that our server lab is not 100% quiet. There is also virtually no noise now, and that's a big change from having fans and spinning drives making such a strong background noise constantly.

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