On 09/02/2012 08:26 PM, Nathan wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Todd And Margo Chester
> <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
>     Hi All,
>
>     On several Windows machines lately, I have been using
>     Intel's Cherryville enterprise SSD drives.  They work
>     very, very well.
>
>     Cherryville drives have a 1.2 million hour MTBF (mean time
>     between failure) and a 5 year warranty.
>
>     I have been thinking, for small business servers
>     with a low data requirement, what would be the
>     risk of dropping RAID in favor of just one of these
>     drives?
>
>     Seems to me the RAID controller would have a worse
>     MTBF than a Cherryville SSD drive?
>
>     And, does SL 6 have trim stuff built into it?
>
>     What do you all think?
>
>
> In my experience, I've had more problems with hardware RAID controllers
> than any other component (hardware OR software) except for traditional
> hard drives themselves.  We switched to software RAID (Linux) and ZFS
> (*BSD and Solaris)  years ago.
>
> But that's just us.  YMMV.
>
> ~ Nathan

Hmmmmmm.  Never had a bad hardware RAID controller.  Had several
mechanical hard drives go bad.

Anyone have an opinion(s) on SSD's in a small work group server?