SSD Drive for Server?

[macally]

I have recently bought a HP ML110 G6 Quad Core Xeon Server and am upgrading the Ram to 16GB ECC Registered.

My plan is to use the server with Windows SBS2011 or Server 2012 and use it for DNS/Email/File Server/Active Directory.

If I go for Server 2012, I will be using Office365 for the email but this will be managed through the Server. If I go for SBS2011, I will be using the built-in Exchange Management Console.

I have 2 x 2TB Samsung F4's and I'm planning to run them in a mirrored RAID setup and use those for the data on the server, however, I was wondering if it would be beneficial to use an SSD for the OS?

My main concern is that SBS2011 requires 120GB of hard drive space in order to install so would need at least a 128GB SSD.

Would there be much of a performance increase in using an SSD over a standard 250GB hard drive for example?

 

[macally]

No, no benefit in a server like this. It might boot quicker, but it's a server - who cares

I think there would be a significant speed increase but I wouldn't like to do it without redundancy. I'm not convinced in my own mind yet that on a server that they would last as long as mechanical disks either.

Thanks for the replies. Would it be better to have the OS on the same RAID array that the data's on (partitioned?) or have a completely separate drive for the OS?

 

[macally]

Depends how far you want to take the redundancy but that's the way I have it on mine. OS and Data partitions on the same array.

Thanks,

I think that's the way I'm going to go - that way there is redundancy for the OS install as well.