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Would you run an Ubuntu server on a hard drive (without SSD)? (self.buildapc)

submitted 2 years ago by Poutinetown to c/buildapc

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If i want to run an Ubuntu server 24/7 with Plex and Qbit, would it make sense to use a hard drive as home/boot drive? Or is it better to use an SSD?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

If you're running it 24/7 I'd recommend an SSD. For a boot drive it would be pretty cheap to get one. TBH the only situation i wouldn't recommend an SSD is if you're looking for more than 4TB of space.

[–] Poutinetown 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I plan to have a 8-10TB HDD for media storage. So I guess ssd would still make sense (since the docker stuff will still be store on ssd)?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It will work fine, if it takes a few seconds longer to boot, it really does it matter with a server. But I'd still separate the OS from the data drive, since you can get a 120gb SSD for $10, it's a no brainer really, in case you need to reinstall the OS, you can leave the data untouched.

You can also backup data from the SSD to the HDD in case it fails.

But for simplicity and if you don't really care about possibly losing data, running everything from a single HDD will work fine, most stuff will get loaded in RAM anyway, and run from there, it's not like you'll be launching new apps all the time.

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