Small business server SSD? Ubuntu or Windows?

englishpremier

englishpremier

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We'll be reorganising our office IT in the new year and need a small server in the office to serve our 30GB of data.

There will only be three users so it doesn't need to be anything too special.

We'll do incremental online backups to the cloud each night.

We'll need the ability to access the server (mapped drives) from anywhere in the world, so I suspect we'll also get a router capable of VPN.

I've just got to questions.

a) Due to the small amount of data, would you recommend SSD over a regular HDD on the server?

b) Provided our printer is compatible, would you recommend Ubuntu over Windows?
 
with that many users and small amount of data wouldn't a nice NAS do the trick? The only advantage for such a small setup with going ubuntu would be the licence cost too, something that would be negated if you went down the NAS route
 
Surely, the best thing to use is the one your going find easiest to support?
Unless you think speed (of file access) or power consumption is going to be an issue why go SSD? for the price of a single SSD you could buy 2 or 3 mechanical drives and RAID for extra data redundancy protection.
 
You won't see any benefits of the SSD over gigabit ethernet - I'd stick with a couple of decent mechanical drives in RAID 1.
 
Mechanical drive it is then. It was just a wondering as the software we run benefits from high bandwidth, obviously if i'm limited by the Gbit lan rather than the file system then that doesn't matter.
 
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