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Why not RAID-1? RAID-0 on a technology that is known to die relatively faster than HDD's seems risky. Plus, you should get a read speed boost from it too.

by timdorr 17y ago

PStamatiou 17y ago
Hey Tim! I was just at Ignition Alley today, in the loud room, working on this post. I have lots of backups in place - files I don't touch in more than a week get moved to S3, as well as Time Machine and a working clone of the drive made every week. That being said, RAID 0 gives me more space and is faster for reads and writes (that are larger than the block size that is)! Risky indeed though. I touched up on this aspect at the end of the article, and also noted that this setup will only exist on my MBP for 9 mons or so, at which point I'll upgrade to some faster SSDs.
apowell 17y ago
Why RAID-anything in a laptop? A single Intel SSD is pretty darn fast, and the second bay is more useful as a large-capacity spinning hard drive (unless you need the optical drive, of course). I have my MBP set up this way and I've been very pleased with it.
- PStamatiou 17y ago
  For me at least: the single SSD got boring after a while and I wanted to get better speeds. As for storage I have a 2TB (RAID 0 as well) HTPC ( http://paulstamatiou.com/how-to-build-microsoft-windows-7-intel-core-i7-pc http://paulstamatiou.com/how-to-build-microsoft-windows-7-in... ) that keeps most of my media and usenet junk, then an external for other stuff.
pmjordan 17y ago
IIRC, Intel specify a lifetime of at least 5 years for "normal use", with a warranty of 3 years. In my experience, you're pretty lucky if your laptop hard disk lasts 5 years; of course, the SSDs haven't been out for that long, so who knows.
- PStamatiou 17y ago
  My first SSD (first gen X25-M) died in ~9 months. Still not sure if it was the controller or just mass failure of the flash mem. Either way Intel sent a new one in just a few days.
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hexley 17y ago
RAID-1 is a (very expensive in this case) waste of space when you already have a perfectly good backup system in place.

Why not RAID-1? RAID-0 on a technology that is known to die relatively faster than HDD's seems risky. Plus, you should get a read speed boost from it too.

by timdorr 17y ago

Why not RAID-1? RAID-0 on a technology that is known to die relatively faster than HDD's seems risky. Plus, you should get a read speed boost from it too.

PStamatiou 17y ago

Hey Tim! I was just at Ignition Alley today, in the loud room, working on this post. I have lots of backups in place - files I don't touch in more than a week get moved to S3, as well as Time Machine and a working clone of the drive made every week. That being said, RAID 0 gives me more space and is faster for reads and writes (that are larger than the block size that is)! Risky indeed though. I touched up on this aspect at the end of the article, and also noted that this setup will only exist on my MBP for 9 mons or so, at which point I'll upgrade to some faster SSDs.

apowell 17y ago

Why RAID-anything in a laptop? A single Intel SSD is pretty darn fast, and the second bay is more useful as a large-capacity spinning hard drive (unless you need the optical drive, of course). I have my MBP set up this way and I've been very pleased with it.

PStamatiou 17y ago
For me at least: the single SSD got boring after a while and I wanted to get better speeds. As for storage I have a 2TB (RAID 0 as well) HTPC ( http://paulstamatiou.com/how-to-build-microsoft-windows-7-intel-core-i7-pc http://paulstamatiou.com/how-to-build-microsoft-windows-7-in... ) that keeps most of my media and usenet junk, then an external for other stuff.

pmjordan 17y ago

IIRC, Intel specify a lifetime of at least 5 years for "normal use", with a warranty of 3 years. In my experience, you're pretty lucky if your laptop hard disk lasts 5 years; of course, the SSDs haven't been out for that long, so who knows.

PStamatiou 17y ago
My first SSD (first gen X25-M) died in ~9 months. Still not sure if it was the controller or just mass failure of the flash mem. Either way Intel sent a new one in just a few days.

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hexley 17y ago

RAID-1 is a (very expensive in this case) waste of space when you already have a perfectly good backup system in place.