Hello,
Background info.
I currently have a HP Proliant n54l microserver. After trying out Freenas I'm switching over to Open Media Vault (OMV).
Questions
I plan to run OMV from a Solid State Disk (SSD) here are my questions
Thanks for your help in advance 
1 - Not really.
2 - The web interface might be a little faster.
3 - None of my systems use more than 8 GB of space on the OS drive.
If you are going to use flash/ssd, make sure to use the openmediavault-flashmemory plugin.
1. The benefit of an SSD would be it is considerably faster than HDD. OMV may be snappier in handling, but I cannot say one way or the other as I installed OMV to SSD and don't know how it would handle on an HDD.
2. See above.
3. As small as you can find is all you will need. My OMV is on a 30GB SSD because I couldn't find one smaller at the time. Only 2GB of the available 30GB is being used.
That drive will work fine. I have used one with an OMV box before.
@ryecoaaron how do i need the openmediavault-flashmemory for a ssd? I think i need the plugin only for a usb stick?!
I think i need the plugin only for a usb stick?!
It does not matter if you have an USB-Stick/SD-Card, an SSD-Drive or an HDD-Drive. It simply moves most of the files which write or read much to the RAM and therefore reduces the read/write on your system drive.
So yes, it is absolutely perfect for USB Sticks / SD Cards. But you can use it with other drives as well.
If you don't use it plan on replacing your SSD every 3-4 years. I just replaced mine a couple months ago.
@ryecoaaron how do i need the openmediavault-flashmemory for a ssd? I think i need the plugin only for a usb stick?!
I recommend it for SSDs because there are a lot of cheap SSDs out there (especially the small ones) that aren't much better than a usb stick. Not many people are using a Samsung 850 Pro for their OS.
Sorry for the question... Whot does the Plugin do?
Moves the directories that have a large amount of writes (like logging) to memory. They are only written to disk when you shutdown.
@ryecoaaron many thanks!
anyone knows if there is a possibility to manually sync from ram to disk without rebooting?
I use a Intel 313 20GB. I'm not concerned about writes wearing it out as it's designed for caching, so has lots of endurance.
@ryecoaaron Is there any way we can have a setting to tell how often to write to disk???
I've read this post, and must thank everybody as I did not knew about Flash Menory pluging.
My 2 cents is that I'm using this 8GB SSD
http://www.dx.com/es/p/kingspe…e-8gb-104062#.VjehWyu6-Uk
for almost every (linux)computer I have, as a boot device.
I have units 6 years old and I've had no fail. Now with Flash Memory my OMV units will last for 10 years more
Will try to find how to install Flas Memory to other linux distributions.
Thanks
@ryecoaaron Is there any way we can have a setting to tell how often to write to disk???
You would have to ask bobafett. Personally, I think this defeats the purpose of the plugin (to write to drive on regular basis).
Maybe for an SD card but for an SSD it might be nice to write once an hour.
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