From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} SSD instead of RAID1?
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:41:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3246D693-90B9-4541-96A0-8711DBB9C156@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090729191540.4685c378@krikkit.digimed.co.uk>
On 29 Jul 2009, at 19:15, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:20:53 -0700, Grant wrote:
>
>> Anyway, the point of all this is to prevent an HD failure from
>> stopping the system. An SSD is much safer, right?
>
> SSDs are still relatively new technology, so predicting failure
> rates is
> less reliable. What's wrong with using RAID-1? It's proven
> technology and
> totally resistant to a single HD failure.
This was Grant's original question - whether SSD / flash technology is
more reliable than RAID-1 of conventional disks? - and one to which no-
one appeared comfortable giving a categorical answer.
Stroller.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-30 11:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-26 10:46 [gentoo-user] {OT} SSD instead of RAID1? Grant
2009-07-26 16:04 ` Stroller
2009-07-27 12:44 ` Grant
2009-07-27 17:43 ` Florian Philipp
2009-07-27 18:33 ` Florian Philipp
2009-07-27 18:42 ` James Ausmus
2009-07-28 17:52 ` Grant
2009-07-28 19:01 ` Stroller
2009-07-29 15:20 ` Grant
2009-07-29 17:25 ` Florian Philipp
2009-07-30 12:17 ` Grant
2009-07-30 12:33 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-07-30 13:00 ` Grant
2009-07-30 13:01 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-07-30 13:47 ` Grant
2009-07-30 14:05 ` Alex Schuster
2009-07-30 15:45 ` Grant
2009-07-30 15:57 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-07-30 14:57 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-07-30 15:57 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-07-30 15:20 ` Peter Humphrey
2009-07-30 13:10 ` Alex Schuster
2009-07-30 14:18 ` Paul Hartman
2009-07-30 16:03 ` Grant
2009-07-30 16:07 ` Paul Hartman
2009-07-30 16:12 ` Grant
2009-07-31 16:07 ` Grant
2009-07-29 18:15 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-07-30 11:41 ` Stroller [this message]
2009-07-31 17:31 ` Grant
2009-08-03 16:00 ` Grant
2009-07-30 12:53 ` Grant
2009-07-30 11:46 ` Stroller
2009-07-29 8:12 ` Nevynxxx
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