On Mittwoch 17 Dezember 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 12:30 -0800, kashani wrote: > > Grant wrote: > > > Do you guys think RAID1 is unnecessary with an SLC SSD drive? > > > > No need for RAID1, brand new technology always works right in the first > > generation. There are never problems. :-D > > > > It would be interesting to run RAID1 between an SSD and SATA drive. I > > wonder what sort of issues the disparity in speed would cause. > > WRT writes it will pretty much nullify the advantage of having the SSD > since all writes will be the speed of the slowest drive (the SATA). A > write request is not completed until all mirrors are written to.
and I am not sure that the SSD is the fast writer ...