I own no SSDs. I am not yet convinced of their reliability. They are also too expensive. The speed is nice, but really, how much speed do we need? There comes a point where more technology is only there to boost sales, like white iPhones and dual core CPUs in smart phones. All it is really good for is making a bigger price tag. I do not care much about the manufacturers claiming X million hours MTBF, all I know is I see people ranting about SSDs failing early.
So I'll stick with old fashioned hard drives for a few more years yet.
Ditto here.
I have been running dozens of IDE/SATA/SCSI drives for about 20 years now and in all that time I have only had two drives completely fail on me. The rest got too small and are now paper weights or were moved out due to upgrades.
I can't justify the cost difference versus performance when you can buy 2 identical SATA drives, run Raid 0 and be just fine.
I have been running dozens of IDE/SATA/SCSI drives for about 20 years now and in all that time I have only had two drives completely fail on me. The rest got too small and are now paper weights or were moved out due to upgrades.
I can't justify the cost difference versus performance when you can buy 2 identical SATA drives, run Raid 0 and be just fine.
Except that the likelihood of failure increases exponentially with increasing size of a RAID 0 array and a single SSD is faster than RAID 0 array with 7200 drives (especially SSDs with newer controllers, such as OCZ Vertex 3)
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Edit: Found it.
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Ditto here.
I have been running dozens of IDE/SATA/SCSI drives for about 20 years now and in all that time I have only had two drives completely fail on me. The rest got too small and are now paper weights or were moved out due to upgrades.
I can't justify the cost difference versus performance when you can buy 2 identical SATA drives, run Raid 0 and be just fine.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=248560
Keep in mind that the Vertex 3 (and other more recent controllers) are boasting speeds almost double of the stuff quoted in that thread. Here is a more recent review from Anandtech