I think it'll be 10 years before an SSD is relevant server side unless it has a beast CPU and you are using applications to encode video etc or on trackers with 1000's of peers across 1000's of torrents. Even a 20/20 HDD server can provide speeds way, way faster than most people need, especially with a basic Linux OS, and as far as seedboxes with no VNC access go, there is no point at all imo. Save the money or get more disk space. I doubt even traffic intensive dedicated servers like the ones Facebook and Google use have SSD's yet (but I could be wrong about that?). There will be a time when the far greater energy efficiency of an SSD over a regular HDD make it a mouthwatering money-saving option for data centers but I cant see it being fully implemented for a long time because of the cost of replacing entire infrastructres and server pools.

Interesting subject though. And double check everything I say because I havent lol.

Noone mentioned random disk io yet. That's the worst part of everything. For seeding something fast you often need to have fast RANDOM disk reads and writes which are way slower than continueous disk reads, that's why I believe that SSD seedboxes can provide way faster speeds. So I will say if my monthly bandwitch usage with a HDD seedbox is 10TB then with an SSD one having the same price it can easily be 30-40TB. However that requires way more budget to get the same amount of storage. So that's why I haven't used any SSD seedboxes yet, but I am planning to try out one, because it looks like I will get a good deal very soon If that deal will work, then I will be able to tell you more detailled comparation about the HDD and SSD seedboxes.

i have an ssd box and a regular hdd box .. the ssd is obviously much faster

great for catching the swarms

SSD is the future, go with it

Originally Posted by snakebite

i have an ssd box and a regular hdd box .. the ssd is obviously much faster

great for catching the swarms

could you tell which ssd you have?

Interesting all the comments, I also think that hdd is enough, ssd is very expensive xD