On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Todd And Margo Chester < [email protected]> 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
