Hyper V server

[Badfish]

Hi

I am looking at getting a couple of servers for Hyper V server, but am having some problem deciding on harddisks. I dont know if 15k SAS drives would be best or whether SSDs would be better?

I read SSDs can burnout fairly quick if you write to them loads, and I would guess a Hyper V server running 8+ virtual machines will write a lot to the disks?

What I'm planning on going for so far is:

Windows 2008R2
Dual Xeon E5570 Quad Core processor
24GB Ram
2x146GB SAS disks for OS/programs
then need around 1TB for virtual machines.

Thanks for your help

 

[Badfish]

To be honest I've been thinking the same thing, just stick to the usual disks for now. Also SSDs that come with servers are rediculously priced and its not really worth it.

Thanks for your thoughts