I’m pleased to hear it. I think I’d tuned the old one to death in order to eek out every last bit of performance all of which is carried over but we’ve got a lot more to work with here.
As I said earlier I’ve been waiting for a similar offer of twice disks at the same price after narrowly missing the last one 6 months ago. But waiting has really paid off because here we have twice disks and RAM at the same price. Amazing!
I was also on the verge of adding a very small SSD just to boost the performance of certain applications very recently but decided not to in the end because that kind of disk has a nasty habit of just dying stone dead without warning and it could have made problems for us. So all things considered until the days of affordable SSD RAID we’ll be sticking to the slow but predictable reliability of spinning rust.
