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VPS providers offers a PURE SSD and SSD CACHED, Which is better to use for game server? What are there advantage and disadvantage?

For game servers that use alot of IO, SSD is the best.

If it uses MySQL, SSD is the best.

If it saves periodically, SSD-Cached is ok.
Minecraft is best on SSD tho

(05-31-2016, 05:45 PM)Conan Wrote: [ -> ]For game servers that use alot of IO, SSD is the best.

If it uses MySQL, SSD is the best.

If it saves periodically, SSD-Cached is ok.
Minecraft is best on SSD tho

I see so do you have a minecraft server? because right now I'm studying to develop a ragnarok server, but is there any disadvantage with ssd-cached if it's use for game server?

(06-06-2016, 04:37 AM)Vuluts Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-31-2016, 05:45 PM)Conan Wrote: [ -> ]For game servers that use alot of IO, SSD is the best.

If it uses MySQL, SSD is the best.

If it saves periodically, SSD-Cached is ok.
Minecraft is best on SSD tho

I see so do you have a minecraft server? because right now I'm studying to develop a ragnarok server, but is there any disadvantage with ssd-cached if it's use for game server?

For game servers ssd cached disks are enough. There is no reason to buy true SSD, it will not be significantly faster. And a HDD or a SSD cached disk is much cheaper.

Well, it's a consideration you have to make. Hosters using "Pure SSD", as you call it, most of the time have quite low storage, because SSD storage is quite expensive. The speed of SSDs is a little higher, but if you write small files, you should also be fine with a SSD-Cached. Simply because small files will be written into the SSD-part first, before written to the HDD-part. If you want more storage, go with SSD-Cached, if you simply want the highest performance possible, you should go with "Pure SSD".

Another thing you should keep in mind: Although the speeds of SSDs itself are higher, an SAN or a NAS could reasonably lower the actual speed. Lots of hosters use a SAN as a central storage for all servers.

(06-06-2016, 04:37 AM)Vuluts Wrote: [ -> ]I see so do you have a minecraft server? because right now I'm studying to develop a ragnarok server, but is there any disadvantage with ssd-cached if it's use for game server?

I dont run minecraft servers on my VPSs because it might get suspended :3

(06-06-2016, 12:43 PM)Dudi Wrote: [ -> ]For game servers ssd cached disks are enough. There is no reason to buy true SSD, it will not be significantly faster. And a HDD or a SSD cached disk is much cheaper.

Yes they are enough. Unless the game server uses a lot of IO that can lock up.
And as far as I know minecraft servers does a lot of IO for saving worlds.

Also of course, game servers that uses some kind of DB will be faster on SSD.

Game servers that use small flat-files for saving info should still be pretty fast on SSD-cached though.

Well I guess I need to choose Pure SSD since ragnarok online saves lots of logs, for games and I don't want to sacrifice those files because they are really important.

SSD Cached basically most of your content are stored in hard drive but the portion of data that used very frequently like for example operating system file stored on ssd so much frequent used files will be much faster to access

Pure SSD is 100% of your data is stored on the SSD that mean all your files are fast to access . i really dont know why server still using SAN . 10k RPM hard drive isnt really that fast anyway . you better just buy ssd for less price than overpriced 10kRPM hard drive . even consumer grade solid state drive is much much faster than server grade hard drive that have 10kRPM in it . reliability?? well solid state drive is sollid and no moving part and that mean more reliability . so in 2017 there are no reason for that overpiced drive

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(06-07-2016, 09:30 AM)Conan Wrote: [ -> ]I dont run minecraft servers on my VPSs because it might get suspended :3


Yes they are enough. Unless the game server uses a lot of IO that can lock up.
And as far as I know minecraft servers does a lot of IO for saving worlds.

Also of course, game servers that uses some kind of DB will be faster on SSD.

Game servers that use small flat-files for saving info should still be pretty fast on SSD-cached though.

well if you dont want to get suspended you can try using IOPS limiter and also CPU Usage limiter because some vps provider doesnt allow 100% cpu all time .

i prefer SSD because i have used both and my game server was working great on SSD

Is it affordable to use an SSD ? People use like Terabytes of storage these days. How feasible it will be use an SSD in such cases.