if money isn´t a problem, buy only ssd =) they have ecc, faster read/write, less latency, and a bigger MTBF (they are better!) and they broken too, replace every 5 years to don´t have problems with loose of information 2011/2/1 John Robinson <john.robinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On 30/01/2011 12:12, Mathias Burén wrote: > [...] >> >> Ah, good point. The sda is a 60GB SSD, I should definitely move that >> to the PCI-E card, as it doesn't do heavy IO (just small random r/w). >> Then i can have 4 RAID HDDs on the onboard ctrl, and 2 on the PCI-E >> shared with the SSD. If the SSD is idle then I should get ideal >> throughputs. > > Hmm, if you have an SSD, you might look at using bcache to speed up write > access to your array. On the other hand, with only one SSD you potentially > lose redundancy - do SSDs crash and burn like hard drives do? > > If the SSD is only being used as a boot/OS drive - so near idle in normal > use - I'd swap it for a cheap small laptop hard drive and find somewhere > else to put the SSD to better use. > > Cheers, > > John. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Roberto Spadim Spadim Technology / SPAEmpresarial -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
