I have two local systems that need to be reliable and also have a large storage capacity. The thing is, the data storage doesn't need to be reliable, I just need the systems to keep running. The data on the systems is backed up and losing it wouldn't be the end of the world because of the backups. However, I really need each of the systems to keep running.
I've read that an SSD drive should be much more reliable than an HD drive. What if I bought a low-price/low-capacity SSD drive for each of these systems, installed the system essentials on them, and used my existing high-capacity HD drives for data storage? Would each system keep running if the HDs died? If so, I think that would offer as good or better system reliability than RAID1. What do you think? - Grant
