On Tuesday, January 08, 2013 01:11:09 PM Robert LeBlanc wrote: > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 9:56 PM, Phillip Hellewell <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 11:06:30AM -0700, Michael Torrie wrote: > > > Unless you want to spend significant cash, I don't see any reason to go > > > with SSD, frankly. The affordable ones have extremely high failure > > > rates from the reviews I've read. And they often fail suddenly and > > > spectacularly, with no warning. At least the ones you see advertised on > > > newegg (OCZ, etc). > > > > Hmm, this really worries me. I can't afford to have my server die > > suddenly and unexpectedly. And I've heard you're "not supposed to" use > > RAID with SSDs. Maybe SSD is a better choice with laptops than servers. > > I don't know of any techinical reason for this other than some people > complaining that RAID does not pass down TRIM. The fact is TRIM support is > not fully implemented anyway. I would have no problem RAIDing SSD and > consider it safe practice like any disk that can fail (I'm pretty sure that > is all of them).
Not that this hands down discounts "not supposed to", but I have run a busy database server that we tried two SSDs in a RAID1, and it's worked just dandy for over a year. -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
