On 5 January 2016 at 09:26, Rob Kampen <rkampen at kampensonline.com> wrote: > Preparing to build a small replacement server (initially built in 2005) > and normally for the OS I would buy 2x500GB drives and deploy in a RAID 1 > configuration. > Now we have SSD drives available > - does just a single SSD drive offer the same reliability or is there > advantage in deploying two in a Raid 1 config? > > Also, what form factor / interface is best for the SSD OS boot device on a > server M/B? Anything I should be looking for? > It seems most SSD are in laptop drive size, shape and interface - thus not > a good fit into a server motherboard unless I'm missing something. > - what devices are you using? > > Thanks in advance. > Rob > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > There will always be advantages in using Raid 1 for OS, but to be able to give you a better response, we will need a little more information. We currently use SSDs on our blade servers, which uses hardware raid 1 for the OS only and most data and other applications are configured on different drives/clusters. -- Kind Regards Earl Ramirez