SSD RAID?

[Jay Vaughan]

> Perhaps a stupid question, but would it make any sense to make a
> redundant RAID array with SSD drives?

Yes.  There is a 1Tb SSD-based RAID in one of the projects I'm working  
on.  Its awesome .. so freakin' fast.  Its being used as a cache.

> It's really nice software, so if you have an old PC lying about (P3 +
> 128 MB of RAM should suffice), you could add a SATA RAID controller  
> and
> a couple of drives, and have a very cheap file server that will even
> download torrents for you, amongst other things.


I've just got a desktop for torrents on my new multi-core machine,  
which has 27 active downloads, while on other desktops I'm doing a fat  
git pull, compiling OpenEmbedded for beagle, compiling a new custom  
kernel for the box itself, and 3 desktops full of browsing, as well as  
my editor screen .. its very nice to have a big fat Linux machine  
again ..

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Jay Vaughan