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- Aug 19, 2004
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- Florida
After buying a 1 TB SSD for my main computer, I find myself with 3 120 GB Mushkin Cronos drives, two of which were running the OS's on my main and second rig (the other one was a back up still in the pkg.
I have been thinking of running a RAID 5 array but see a lot of talk online about too many writes in RAID 5 shortening the life of an SSD (And the opposite side saying the problem is overblown). I have also seen where people have split three drives into two partitions each and run RAID 10 on six partitions.
Another potential problem is controllers not being able to keep up with blazing SSD RAID speeds.
In the past, I have run RAID 5 on three 35 GB raptors and have experience with RAID 1 and 0 but not with SSDs.
Opinions and discussion would be welcome.
I have been thinking of running a RAID 5 array but see a lot of talk online about too many writes in RAID 5 shortening the life of an SSD (And the opposite side saying the problem is overblown). I have also seen where people have split three drives into two partitions each and run RAID 10 on six partitions.
Another potential problem is controllers not being able to keep up with blazing SSD RAID speeds.
In the past, I have run RAID 5 on three 35 GB raptors and have experience with RAID 1 and 0 but not with SSDs.
Opinions and discussion would be welcome.