{"id":636,"date":"2012-06-14T08:30:20","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T07:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=636"},"modified":"2012-06-14T10:58:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T09:58:08","slug":"virtual-desktops-on-pci-e-ssd-why-hdd-should-still-be-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=636","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Desktops on PCI-E SSD \u2013 Why HDD should still be involved"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-11445\" data-series-id=\"78\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 4 of 6 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?series=virtual-desktops-on-pci-e-ssd\">Virtual Desktops on PCI-E SSD<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-637 aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ssdandhddgood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"577\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ssdandhddgood.jpg 577w, https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ssdandhddgood-300x73.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">One of the\u00a0most interesting features of the OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 is that in many situations you can boot a OS right off the drive (great for super fast gaming PCs). The only issue with this is not every motherboard out there will support booting right off a PCI-E SSD (OCZ do have a list <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocztechnology.com\/displaypage.php?name=revodrive_moboguide\">here<\/a> though) but also more importantly its a right pain to update the firmware on a SSD that you are booting off.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The specifics are that the OCZ tools won&#8217;t allow the flashing of\u00a0a SSD which you are running a OS off, as such you need to either install your OS of choice onto a normal HDD or use the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocztechnology.com\/ssd_tools\/SandForce_Based\/\">OCZ Linux LiveCD<\/a> (which dosn&#8217;t support proxies).<\/p>\n<p>With this little issue I would then\u00a0suggest that\u00a0you <strong>only ever use SSDs for storage<\/strong> and that the <strong>OS sits on a pair of HDDs in RAID1<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>So why are firmware updates so important?<br \/>\nFirmware updates fix issues with the SSD and also help to improve performance through improvements in the drives software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-11445 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"78\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 4 of 6 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?series=virtual-desktops-on-pci-e-ssd\">Virtual Desktops on PCI-E SSD<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>One of the\u00a0most interesting features of the OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 is that in many situations you can boot a OS right off the drive (great for super fast gaming PCs). The only issue with this is not every motherboard out there will support booting right off a PCI-E SSD (OCZ do have a list here though) but also more&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=636\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,11],"tags":[87,30,39],"series":[78],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-servers","tag-firmware-flashing","tag-ocz","tag-ssd","series-virtual-desktops-on-pci-e-ssd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}