SSD for FreeBSD NAS device

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Tue Nov 20 14:18:47 UTC 2012


In the last episode (Nov 20), bsd said:
> I have just acquired an Intel R2312GZ4GC4 which I have equipped with a
> Adaptec RAID 51245 and 6 WD red disks of 3To - It'll come with 32Gb of
> Kingston ECC RAM.
> 
> I am planing to use It as a backup device on a second hosting facility to
> backup couple of critical servers of mine.
[..] 
> I wanted to know what were your experiences on choosing an SSD HD as
> master boot device / root FS ?
>
> Do you think I should go for a redundant SSD drives (RAID 1) or does this
> offers limited interest in such config ?

For any "critical" server, don't think of RAID as an option, think of it as
a requirement.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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