Re: Found on Slashdot: Wear Leveling, RAID Can Wipe Out SSD Advantage -- MIDRANGE-L

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On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 18:23, Mark S. Waterbury
<mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Given the high-speed of SSD and assuming that since there are no "moving
parts" to break or wear out, I would suppose that SSD should be far more
reliable than most spinning disks.

This isn't necessarily true. SSDs are still bleeding edge technology.
They often fail with no warning whatsoever, and if they do, all the
data is gone. This happens much more often than it does with hard
disks - the latter had time to mature, but SSDs haven't.

If you're interested in SSD technology, go read up on anandtech.com.
They currently have one of the best articles about the SSD market
(which is very interesting).

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3747

I own two SSDs right now (an OCZ Vertex in my work laptop, and an
Intel X25-M G2 in my computer at home).

So, then, why would anyone want to add SSD devices to a RAID set? :-o

Imagine the downtime if one breaks. Also, you'll get more speed if you
add them to a RAID set.

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