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@Jeffrey what SSD, SSD with SATA 3 running good potential~500MB/s or an SSD like the oCZ Petrol http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-petrol-sata-iii-2-5-ssd.html which on speed tests, barely beats a good 7200 HDD< but IOPS are much faster...
My bad, actually my invoice says 146GB SAS, although I remembered during ordering it did say SSD...whatever...it is cheap enough for me
I asked for RAID set up during sign up and they emailed me and asked me if Hardware RAID 1 is OK, of course I said yes then
I ordered about 24 hours ago and I haven't received mine yet. But my service entry in the customer portal says SAS - not SSD.
Guys with all you write im not sure if buy one or not :S.
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Up to you
For me it is strictly for personal use (2 Windows virtual environment, 1 with a MS-SQL and 1 with a VB.NET + Other random things for Dev + 2 Linux box) so it does not matter to me whether it is SSD or SAS 
How fast would the SAS be? 50MB/s? 80MB/s? 120MB/s?
Does it make any difference if non RAID or HW RAID1? (Only on speed matter)
I believe Datashack have a 2 business day set up time so likely to be Monday, if not today. Could always ticket them and ask..
It depends, but I would expect about 80-100 with a single drive.
Raid 1 is mirroring, it will give a slight delay on write, but will read faster, tho with only 2 drives wont be that obvious.
I am a bit pessimistic in general.
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146 GB is most likely a server-grade SAS HDD, there are no SSDs with that capacity, as someone correctly noted above. And these HDDs are not that great as far as linear read/write speed is concerned, but they do have a low latency (fast seek rate).
When I had my server setup a month ago, it took ~2 business days
as per the link by @eastonch which makes some sense to clear the confusion of SAS/SSD
Style SSD
SSD Capacity 146GB
Size 2.5"
Interface Type SAS
Speed 10000rpm
Cache 6GB
Model Number 42D0617
Capacity 146GB
Scope Server
hmm... speed looks good.. comments??
FWIW, That's an IBM part number
yea... noticed the picture there also shows blue IBM logo, Made in Phillipines
noone got the box yet?
Well its been less than 2 days Pats.
How would you guys rate DataShack's network? I'm thinking about getting one for a game server and I'm wondering about the ping, and route's it takes.
6/10.
Really tempted to get this.. but not sure what to use it for, seem like an awesome deal to get an HP blade for $35!! but then again all my VPS's combined don't even come close to the price of one dedi..
Does anybody know how much they charge to reload the OS?
I know you get one free a month, but not sure after that
@Spencer @Earl Usually free if you have a reason and there is no limit, but do not take advantage.
I'm thinking about signing up with the base 4gb of ram but I wonder If i decide to upgrade the ram later on will they charge me a setup fee?
No.
can you request proxmox? or do you have to install debian then install proxmox I don't see a proxmox image
You have to install Proxmox yourself, they are an unmanaged provider.
I was hoping they can install proxmox the bare-metal version instead of installing it on top of a debian installation
@earl Oh they can install an ISO
Just a heads-up, running Minstall's clean-packages hosed my install and now I've gotta request an OS reinstall.
@Satellite Did you disconnect SSH before installing a new SSH server? Hate to lose connection at that moment. Also when did you order the system? Curious on reality of setup time vs claimed.
Nope, I definitely had a replacement SSH up. However, I think the clean-packages commands removes some packages that are required on boot-up, so when it reboots it can't boot into Debian.