I was wondering what would be better for a home server boot drive; a 250GB Enterprise HDD or SSD? I've heard that Windows Home Server is particularly tough of boot drives so I'm thinking the 250GB HDD would be better seeing as it's an enterprise drive and I already own it. I have zero experience with home servers so I need help. Thanks.
If it's HS 2011, it should support TRIM, so an SSD should work fine. That being said, if the server is doing little more than file sharing and a few other bits, theres no point in a SSD.
It will be 2011 and it will be used to back up all the PC's in the house as well as for file sharing and media streaming.
WHS 2011 doesn't trash the boot drive, only WHS v1 trashed the boot drive as it had to be used as part of the storage pool. I'm assuming if you're asking for a boot drive you have separate storage drives for backup and data? An SSD should be fine. You can add in a config file as when you install the OS in order to bypass the 160GB minimum hard drive size
most ppl due ti to save even more leccy but it makes the first disk access quite annoying have to wait 5-10 sec for HDD to spin up
ssd dosen't have as much benefit on a home server as a desktop. Generally the os dosen't need to be that responsive, and as MSH pointed out you will still need to wait for the storage disks to spin up anyway, unless you set power management to always on... Since you already have the disk I would just use that and save some money. Or spend that money you would have on boot ssd for another large 2-3TB drive.
