Is it safe to use an SSD for a game server?
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I am running a game server on an Ubuntu 11.04 box. The game is Minecraft. The biggest (smallest?) bottleneck for my server is the read/write/access time of data on the hard disk. I feel a SSD could make a huge difference in performance. The Minecraft map is stored in individual region files that ar…
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If you can guarantee that the datafiles were never going to exceed the 1-2GB mark I would suggest (if you have enough memory in your system) simply creating a new tmpfs or ramfs or some other type of ramdisk-like filesystem. You would then need a st…
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