m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > hw wrote: >> Mark Haney wrote: >>> On 09/08/2017 09:49 AM, hw wrote: >>>> Mark Haney wrote: > <snip> >> Probably with the very expensive SSDs suited for this ... > <snip> >>>> >>>> That´s because I do not store data on a single disk, without >>>> redundancy, and the SSDs I have are not suitable for hardware RAID. > <snip> > That's a biggie: are these SSDs consumer grade, or enterprise grade? It They are not specifically enterprise rated and especially not for use with hardware RAID. > was common knowledge 8-9 years ago that you *never* want consumer grade in > anything that mattered, other than maybe a home PC - they wear out much > sooner. Similar SSDs are in use in a server for about 2 years now as cache for ZFS, and there haven´t been any issues with them. > But then, you can't really use consumer grade h/ds in a server. We like > the NAS-rated ones, like WD Red, which are about 1.33% the price of > consumer grade, and solid... and a lot less than the enterprise-grade, > which are about 3x consumer grade. Those are pretty worthwhile, though not the fastest. Out of 14, one has failed over the last 3 years or so, and it was still under warranty. They do serve their purpose.