On Mar 15, 2021, at 09:50, Steven Smith wrote:
> SSD RAID offers speed and fault tolerance.
Sure. That either wasn't available or was not within what I was willing to
spend in 2016 when I set up this system.
> Simple options that are tolerant to a single disk failure are:
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On Mon, 15 Mar 2021, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
Thanks for including this information - it's similar to experience I've
had with SSDs for $work. I'd be really surprised if we care about builds
on the xserves in 8-10 years (given our previous experience with the ppc
to x86 transition).
Somewhat
On Mar 14, 2021, at 6:38 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> As far as longevity, the previous set of 3 500 GB SSDs I bought for these
> servers in 2016 lasted 4-5 years. They were rated for 150 TBW (terabytes
> written) and actually endured around 450 TBW by the time they failed, or 3
> times as long
On Mar 14, 2021, at 6:38 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> As far as longevity, the previous set of 3 500 GB SSDs I bought for these
> servers in 2016 lasted 4-5 years. They were rated for 150 TBW (terabytes
> written) and actually endured around 450 TBW by the time they failed, or 3
> times as long
SSD RAID offers speed and fault tolerance.
Simple options that are tolerant to a single disk failure are:
Free/one extra SSD: Use macOS Disk Utility to RAID 1 together two smaller,
inexpensive SSD drives for 100% redundancy.
OWC ThunderBay 4 Mini, $279: Use macOS Disk Utility to RAID 1 together
Hi Ryan,
thanks for your detailed response. I hadn't thought of some of the build
intricacies you mention. Let alone the upcoming silicon change and phasing
out of x86. Sounds like your approach is a good balance for longevity,
performance, and cost.
Cheers
Balthasar
On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 at
On Mar 14, 2021, at 06:11, Balthasar Indermuehle wrote:
> I used to run mac servers in what now can only be described as the days of
> yore... when a 32GB RAM bank cost a lot more than a (spinning) disk - and
> those were expensive then too. SSDs were not here yet. I haven't checked
> pricing
