On 09/02/2012 08:26 PM, Nathan wrote:
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Todd And Margo Chester <toddandma...@gmail.com <mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com>> wrote:Hi All, On several Windows machines lately, I have been using Intel's Cherryville enterprise SSD drives. They work very, very well. Cherryville drives have a 1.2 million hour MTBF (mean time between failure) and a 5 year warranty. I have been thinking, for small business servers with a low data requirement, what would be the risk of dropping RAID in favor of just one of these drives? Seems to me the RAID controller would have a worse MTBF than a Cherryville SSD drive? And, does SL 6 have trim stuff built into it? What do you all think? In my experience, I've had more problems with hardware RAID controllers than any other component (hardware OR software) except for traditional hard drives themselves. We switched to software RAID (Linux) and ZFS (*BSD and Solaris) years ago. But that's just us. YMMV. ~ Nathan
Hmmmmmm. Never had a bad hardware RAID controller. Had several mechanical hard drives go bad. Anyone have an opinion(s) on SSD's in a small work group server?
