Ghost Solution Suite

Will GhostCast Server w/ PXE works faster on an SSD? My current server has 1tb HDD = two 500gb on RAID and I was just wondering if it will be faster to burn laptops if I upgraded my server to an SSD. I usually burn about 30 to 50 laptops at a time. The more sessions I make the slower it is. I am using a gigabit router and anything after 20 laptops I can see that the sessions starts to slow down.

Note that I am planning to upgrade the server to pure SSD and all the images will be on the SSD and not HDD.

I will be burning mostly on several laptops on a normal HDD but a lot of them about 30 to 50 sometimes even more.

I would like an advice if making my server run on SSD helps on the performance on the deployment of my images.

There are many factors that can affect the performance of your imaging setup.  If your images are stored in a defragmented drive separate to the O/S drive then I don't think you will notice much change in your imaging performance, as the only real advantage of SSD over rotating drives is the latency associated with head movement. Having multiple small SSDs each serving up to 10 machines each may be faster than having one SSD serving all the machines.Bear in mind also that the network channel may be reaching saturation at some level and that may be limiting throughput rather than the hard disks alone.

So you really need to check the performance of the different system components using the task manager to identify the bottlenecks and from there enhance the hardware causing the biggest performance loss.

After checking the task manager. I can see that the bottleneck is on my network. I only have a 1 gigabit I/O on my imaging system instead of a 10 gigabit ones like on servers.