SSD RAID offers speed and fault tolerance.
Simple options that are tolerant to a single disk failure are:
Free/one extra SSD: Use macOS Disk Utility to RAID 1 together two smaller,
inexpensive SSD drives for 100% redundancy.
OWC ThunderBay 4 Mini, $279: Use macOS Disk Utility to RAID 1 together
Steven Smith wrote:
> SSD RAID offers speed and fault tolerance.
>
> Simple options that are tolerant to a single disk failure are:
>
> * Free/one extra SSD: Use macOS Disk Utility to RAID 1 together two
> smaller, inexpensive SSD drives for 100% redundancy.
> * OWC ThunderBay 4 Mini, $27
On Mar 14, 2021, at 6:38 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> As far as longevity, the previous set of 3 500 GB SSDs I bought for these
> servers in 2016 lasted 4-5 years. They were rated for 150 TBW (terabytes
> written) and actually endured around 450 TBW by the time they failed, or 3
> times as long as
On Mar 14, 2021, at 6:38 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> As far as longevity, the previous set of 3 500 GB SSDs I bought for these
> servers in 2016 lasted 4-5 years. They were rated for 150 TBW (terabytes
> written) and actually endured around 450 TBW by the time they failed, or 3
> times as long as
On Mar 15, 2021, at 16:26, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> On Mar 14, 2021, at 6:38 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> As far as longevity, the previous set of 3 500 GB SSDs I bought for these
>> servers in 2016 lasted 4-5 years. They were rated for 150 TBW (terabytes
>> written) and actually endured around
On Mon, 15 Mar 2021, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
Thanks for including this information - it's similar to experience I've
had with SSDs for $work. I'd be really surprised if we care about builds
on the xserves in 8-10 years (given our previous experience with the ppc
to x86 transition).
Somewhat re
On Mar 15, 2021, at 09:50, Steven Smith wrote:
> SSD RAID offers speed and fault tolerance.
Sure. That either wasn't available or was not within what I was willing to
spend in 2016 when I set up this system.
> Simple options that are tolerant to a single disk failure are:
>
> • Free/one
On Mar 11, 2021, at 20:15, Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote:
> Have you looked at something like this for fast storage/cache :
>
> https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/SSDACL4M20GB/
> https://www.amazon.de/ASRock-Ultra-Quad-Controller-Karte-PCI-Express/dp/B079TQ9C6Q/ref=sr_1_6
>
> Setting these up in
