Replacing Read/Write Head on IDE Drive ?s

[Growltiger]

Not really considering it simply for budgetary reasons. Besides, I'm not fantasizing about it for speed, but reliability. The operative word there is "fantasizing". Buying drives large enough to make a sizable storage medium would still be VERY expensive. Too rich for my blood. Still, window shopping can be fun.

OK, but you said RAID 0. That will as you said combine them into one large drive but will give you no reliability improvement whatever. RAID 1 would be a very expensive way (double the cost) to get more reliability, and SSD is very reliable anyway.

Perhaps you should cost out a good RAID 5 system. Why not have groups of 5 256GB SSDs in two RAID 5 arrays? That would give you 2TB with ultra reliable ultra high performance. An exciting fantasy, perhaps some secret government department already has these. Think 24.

 

[MrCupHolder]

Actually here's a point some of you may not know. IIRC one of the reasons why SSD's are so fast is that they are RAID0 drives in themselves. Consider that a 64GB SSD drive inside may actually be 8x 8GB drives and a RAID controller configured in a RAID0 configuration. Which is also why some SSD drives handle trim and some don't, because the internal RAID controller has to be able to handle it.

BTW: Vinman how did you get on with the freezer trick?