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[Buzzzsaw360]

What is the best Hard Drive for running Virtual Machines?

What are the best Hard Drives for dealing with compression?

And what are the best ones for extreme stress with compression?

I want to run virtual machines, but inside of each other...

:-)

[PCGeek]

1 minute ago, Buzzzsaw360 said:

What is the best Hard Drive for running Virtual Machines?

What are the best Hard Drives for dealing with compression?

And what are the best ones for extreme stress with compression?

I want to run virtual machines, but inside of each other...

:-)

Generally you want to have a drive with good endurance since you will generate a lot of writes.  I'm currently using a Samsung 850 Pro SATA for my VMs on my desktop.  For the enterprise you would look into enterprise SSDs.

[Buzzzsaw360]

1 minute ago, PCGeek said:

Generally you want to have a drive with good endurance since you will generate a lot of writes.  I'm currently using a Samsung 850 Pro SATA for my VMs on my desktop.  For the enterprise you would look into enterprise SSDs.

Cool thanks, also what is "enterprise"?

[PCGeek]

In Azure we use enterprise SSDs for our HP Blades.  The enterprise SSDs generally have better endurance and higher reliability.  At times they also use different NAND flash types.  Here is a good breakdown I've just found: https://www.kingston.com/en/ssd/enterprise/best_practices/enterprise_versus_client_ssd

[Buzzzsaw360]

Wow thanks a bunch. :-) Yeah i was using a standard Sandisk ssd but it wasn't enough power, this is helpful

thanks

[PCGeek]

9 minutes ago, Buzzzsaw360 said:

Wow thanks a bunch. :-) Yeah i was using a standard Sandisk ssd but it wasn't enough power, this is helpful

thanks

Another thing to keep in mind is if you see bottlenecks with SAS/SATA you generally then want to look at using NVMe.  I personally don't see it on my end on the desktop because my test workloads on my desktop aren't extremely IO intensive.  In the enterprise this comes up more so moving to enterprise NVMe helps.  If you use Azure and when you choose a higher performance storage SKU, this determines the types of disks we use (SAS HDD or SAS SSD on the HP Blades, or NVMe storage).

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