I am in the market looking to purchase a new E950 server and I am trying to decide between using local SSD drives or SSD based SAN. The application that will be running on this server is read-intensive so I am looking for the most optimal configuration to support this application. There are no other servers or applications that will use this SAN (if I decide to go that route.) The deciding factor to me is Performance regardless of the hardware cost (granted I don't want to pay for something I end up not using.) SAN or local SSD (both running RAID 10)? This is really the question I am trying to answer before I pull the trigger and complete this purchase. Any insights from this community is greatly appreciated.


If it helps, here is the configuration I am currently looking at for a server with Local Storage. NVME disks will be used as boot devices. No Plans to run VIOS or create another LPAR. just one instance supporting one application.

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