Installing Server 2012 R2 on SSD

[Prophet]

I've installed 2012 R2 on an SSD and love the performance.

Do I need to tweak anything like with Windows 7 or does 2012 auto configure this?

 

[Bluecube]

I've got 2012R2 installed on an SSD and have done for quite a few months now. Never had any issues (touch wood!) and I've never had to configure anything.

 

[Deleted member 138126]

Nothing to configure whatsoever.

 

[rickjames]

How big is an full GUI installation? Can I get away with lobbing it on a 60gb SSD?

 

[Prophet]

How big is an full GUI installation? Can I get away with lobbing it on a 60gb SSD?

Mines just over 20GB with a Acronis backup and a couple of other small programs.

 

[bledd]

How big is an full GUI installation? Can I get away with lobbing it on a 60gb SSD?

My rule of thumb is 80GB minimum to cater for updates, various installs etc.

If you're keeping a tight ship, then 60GB is certainly doable.

 

[Deleted member 138126]

All our 2012 R2 VMs have 40GB C: drives. Microsoft sorted out the problem of updates causing the Windows directory to swell over time. For VMs with more than 8GB RAM we put the swap file on a separate drive. But 60GB for home is plenty.

Any big software installs have to go elsewhere, obviously.

 

[rickjames]

Install will have at least 20gb of ECC RAM when I get my Dell T20. I'd run it in Core if I knew a little more, we'll see.

 

[Bluecube]

Just clarifying - you know you're talking about RAM now rather than disk space?

 

[rickjames]

Yes. Yes I am.