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MrMaxwell · 11-24-2011, 08:32 AM

Wow, I appreciate the responses. Someone on here looking out for me - that is nice to see!! See, I know how unreliable RAID0 with 2 drives is, but I have multiple backups. The new setup I bought (used) came this way

I need an slc SSD, badly. I could just run with the SSD all day and sync to a RAID1 nightly or during idle time.

Having RAID0 is a whole new world for me. I can't tell you how often my io operations are a huge bottleneck for me. Having an SSD will be incredible.

As I understand it, if one drive fails the whole thing is 100% unrecoverable. But I can add a third drive for 0+1. But the third drive will slow my writes down straight to hell?

And I think you can do raid 0 with two different sized drives, but you'll be limited to the size of the smallest drive?

11-24-2011, 08:32 AM
MrMaxwell Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 10,057	Wow, I appreciate the responses. Someone on here looking out for me - that is nice to see!! See, I know how unreliable RAID0 with 2 drives is, but I have multiple backups. The new setup I bought (used) came this way I need an slc SSD, badly. I could just run with the SSD all day and sync to a RAID1 nightly or during idle time. Having RAID0 is a whole new world for me. I can't tell you how often my io operations are a huge bottleneck for me. Having an SSD will be incredible. As I understand it, if one drive fails the whole thing is 100% unrecoverable. But I can add a third drive for 0+1. But the third drive will slow my writes down straight to hell? And I think you can do raid 0 with two different sized drives, but you'll be limited to the size of the smallest drive?