Minecraft server hard drive

[Ferre Vekemans]

Just a quick question, i am planning to start an own Big Minecraft server, i think it wil run on my hp proliant ml 350 g5 server, 2x quadcore Xeon 2.86 ghz, 11gb ecc ddr3 ram

Now, my question is, i have a wd Red 1tb in there as backup drive for Photos, videos... but i don't think it wil Be enough for a Big Minecraft server, Will a 10 or 15k rpm sas drive Be good enough for that? Or do i need some ssd to fit in there?

 

[jaslion]

Just a quick question, i am planning to start an own Big Minecraft server, i think it wil run on my hp proliant ml 350 g5 server, 2x quadcore Xeon 2.86 ghz, 11gb ecc ddr3 ram

Now, my question is, i have a wd Red 1tb in there as backup drive for Photos, videos... but i don't think it wil Be enough for a Big Minecraft server, Will a 10 or 15k rpm sas drive Be good enough for that? Or do i need some ssd to fit in there?

I've run 60 people mc servers from a usb stick before so it shouldn't be a problem. If you are really noticing intensive disk usage then I would recommend a cheap ssd. High rpm hard drives have become useless since ssd's became mainstream.

 

[Ferre Vekemans]

Yeah but ssd's are just expensive, those 300gb high rpm sas drives are on eBay for like 30$/drive...

 

[jaslion]

Yeah but ssd's are just expensive, those 300gb high rpm sas drives are on eBay for like 30$/drive...

Well those are probably used and as an owner of high rpm harddrives the failure rate, power draw and low performance compared to ssd's aren't worth. I didi however say that you should be fine with just a normal ssd until you reach 100 + people that are on the server at the same time.