My Hard Drive Died #18 – SSD's, Servers and Toshiba Drives

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I have a customer that uses a customized Red Hat server for inventory and point of sale operations.  They recently hired me to review all of their hardware and software needs.  I noticed that this Red Hat server is 8 years old (Pentium 4 with an 80 gb hard drive) and they have no back up.   They contacted the vendor who quoted a Core i7 with an SSD hard drive.

Is an SSD hard drive suitable for a server? The vendor said it gives significant speed increases to the system, but a core i7 is overkill for this Red Hat server, in my opinion.

This is a cement / building materials business open 7 am –  pm (no need for 24 hour access).  I thought an SSD would not be as suitable as a regular SATA hard drive for a server?

Thanks in advance for your advice.

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