Andy Smith wrote: > That is a really strange comment to me. No SSDs have batteries. > Almost no RAID cards have batteries anymore. Supercapacitors have > obsoleted the battery for such purposes. All SSD power loss > protection is supercaps. And if you try to buy a modern RAID card > with a BBU you will mostly just find cards with supercaps instead. > But OP was asking about SSDs not RAID cards so even that nuance > doesn't make much sense. > > But okay, your SSD doesn't have pink elephants either. Samsung can > dance around that fact all they want.
I have LSI controllers that support SATA II. This is a custom build home server (small business server) one friend assembled for me 8y ago. It fits my needs perfectly well. I deliberately did not buy a server as they consume much more power. This one is running at 70-80Watt when normal and 100-120 when for example compiling something. Also noise factor is very low compared to a real server. Of course there are limits (memory/CPU/periferals). The machine is on UPS - I don't care about tantal super caps. Each LSI card has a 6 bay cage attached and I have raided 6x2TB WD RED spinning discs (for data) and 2x1TB WD RED spinning discs (for OS) I somehow can not convince myself that I need to replace any of these with SSDs. I don't want the cheapest but also not unnecessary expensive drives, I just find it hard to evaluate which drives are reliable. I saw there are 1TB WD RED SSDs targeting NAS for about €120,- WESTERN DIGITAL WD RED SA500 NAS 1TB SATA (WDS100T1R0A)
