SSD's or HDD's??

[AMD Lover]

So I acquired a server and am in the process of upgrading some of the hardware for my needs. At first I was going to split the storage in half having a SSD and a HDD datastore. The HDD datastore would consist of 5x 4TB or more drives. This would strictly be for Plex Media server. However I was then going to have a SSD datastore containing 16x 480GB drives. The realization of how much it would cost finally hit me, 16x Intel SSD's would be around $1800. So I got to thinking about it and even with 10Gb networking is a SSD storage array even worth it??? The SSD storage would be used for programs such as games and other applications that are otherwise meant to be run on a local computer.

[TVwazhere]

3 minutes ago, AMD Lover said:

The SSD storage would be used for programs such as games and other applications that are otherwise meant to be run on a local computer.

I'd stick with hard drives.

[Boomwebsearch]

2 minutes ago, AMD Lover said:

games and other applications that are otherwise meant to be run on a local computer

Solid state drives especially high speed rated ones such as Intel Optane drives can be expensive although it may or may not be worth having the SSDs especially if you have a budget that you can not go over. I would recommend using hard drives or using SSHDs are going to be a good compromise between cost and speed. I would suggest using a mixture of regular hard drives and some SSHDs for your specific usage scenario.

[Salv8 (sam)]

get some small quick and cheep ones and configure them as a cache for your hdds, but only if your needs can benefit this, if you regually access files (important documents and stuff that you access often) then this could benefit you if they are large and their is more then one person using then

if thats something you can't benefit from then don't get ssds

[beersykins]

Just for plex I'd go magnetic storage, SSD is a waste and you get exponentially higher capacity for the same cost.