On 7/6/09 1:43 AM, "Scott Carey" <sc...@richrelevance.com> wrote:

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> On 7/5/09 11:13 PM, "Mark Kirkwood" <mar...@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
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>> Craig Ringer wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 11:51 -0700, Patvs wrote:
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> There is no reason to go RAID 1 with SSD's if this is an end-user box and
> the data is recoverable.   Unlike a hard drive, a decent SSD isn't expected
> to go bad.  

Clarification -- normal hard drives are expected to have a chance of dying
within the first few months, or days.  SSD's are expected to wear down
slowly and die eventually -- but better ones will do so by entering a
read-only state.


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