G+_Steven Stewart Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 I have heard a great many things regarding the infinite read powers of an SSD drive. I was wondering if I could use an SSD as the source drive of my media server in place of a raid. My theory is that an SSD would not fail as often as an HDD and would last forever if I'm only reading a static list of movie files. Obviously if money were no object, cuz they ain't cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 Let's start the war... :) Personally I would take a solid SSD (read: one without crazy-horrible compression) over a RAID 5 array. I wouldn't have done that just two years ago. but I've been using a RAID-1 ("Suicide RAID" -- Two 128GB SSDs stripped into a single 256GB array) setup in my Acer S7 for more more than 2 years. Not one single hickup -- And I've been torturing it by doing much of my on-location video editing on the SSD array (which means a lot of writes. worse-case scenario for a SSD) On a media server, where there will most likely be ONE write and a whole lot of reads, the SSD should last beyond the lifespan of its user. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Steven Stewart Posted September 21, 2014 Author Share Posted September 21, 2014 Shots fired! :) Thanks for the speedy response, I tried Google but all I could find were solutions for the OS being an SSD. Your RAID solution is exactly what I had in mind for all my files. That being said I had heard of data degradation not lasting more than 5 years max without being refreshed, thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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