Hi
We are planning on purchasing two new servers running Server 2012 and Hyper-V replication.
Our original spec had 16 lots of 300GB SAS disks however after reading a few articles would I be better off spec'ing two controllers per server and then have some SSD's on one card and 8 x 600GB SAS disk's on the second?
I was thinking of using the SSD's to host the SQL databases (3 databases at present largest one 6GB currently) and then storage would be on the SAS disks.
Would this improve performance or would not having everything on the SSD's not actually speed anything up?
Would the OS installation also need to be on the SSD's?
Our applications that use SQL databases are two Accountancy applications where data is input, searched and reports generated. All outgoing correspondence is generated through this as well which is around 8GB of data so I could in theory house all of this on an SSD configuration. The 3rd application is a document management system which although the database is on 2GB the documents total 200GB at present and is continuously rising. I was thinking of storing the documents on the SAS controller to allow growth. Would this then negate the benefits of SSD's?
I wouldn't want to go with all SSD's due to cost and reliability.
Any help/advice appreciated.
Cheers
Cheers Chris