The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

I have 2x 4TB spinners in RAID1 for my samba box, I think I'd be
loathe to burn a grand to have them be SSD.

+1.
SSD simply doesnt make sense for my server at current prices.

I rarely reboot it, so speed of boot is not an isue and over the netowrk
that is the limiting factor on file performsancem, not the disk speed

Mine does have a 64GB SSD for the O/S, but only because I had a couple
knocking around.