Dell Solid State Hybrid Hard Drive - WDS / MDT?

[agarabaghi]

Has anyone used these drives and deployed an image to them... anything special needed to be done?

[localzuk]

We didn't use WDS/MDT in my last school for deployment, we just used Fog. There's nothing special that needs doing in my experience!

[SYNACK]

If its like the Seagate ones its just another drive no difference to the os side at all.

[agarabaghi]

Awesome, would you say there was a speed improvement?

[localzuk]

Massive speed improvement. Imaging from Fog took about 50% less time on them compared to their spinning disk equivalents.

[agarabaghi]

wow! awesome. What about after imaging... do you notice boot times or login times being fast enough that a non guru user would notice?

[localzuk]

Yeah, massive difference. Startup times are way down. Login times are pretty much unaffected (as they're dictated by the network really), but programs run faster etc...

[agarabaghi]

great to know!