Mark Haney wrote:
On 09/08/2017 01:31 PM, hw wrote:
Mark Haney wrote:
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Probably with the very expensive SSDs suited for this ...
Possibly, but that's somewhat irrelevant. I've taken off the shelf SSDs and hardware RAID'd them. If they work for the hell I put them through (processing weather data), they'll work for the type of service you're saying you have.
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Not true at all. Maybe 5 years ago SSDs were hit or miss with hardware RAID. Not anymore. It's just another drive to the system, the controllers don't know the difference between a SATA HDD and a SATA SSD. Couple that with the low volume of mail, and you should be fine for HW RAID.
<snip> Actually, with the usage you're talking about, I'm surprised you're using SATA and not SAS.
mark