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Can you give sources for your first statement? About the second, it isn't as if the SSD isn't the bottleneck (because they will fail faster than HDD's). The risk is always there.
– Doktoro Reichard
Commented Sep 21, 2013 at 17:17
I'm sure I could find sources via Bing/Google... but I've been 'doing' PCs since, well, before PCs.
– Don Nickel
Commented Sep 21, 2013 at 18:34
Well, RAID arrays are quite recent things... and SSD are even more recent. Technical expertise aside, I think it would help the community if you could check your statements.
– Doktoro Reichard
Commented Sep 21, 2013 at 18:38
Sorry, I hit enter before I had finished my comment. As of a couple years ago, SSDs were considered MORE reliable than HDDs - not less as Dortoro claims. Technology is always changing, and that might not be the case, but I haven't heard that. Here is an article about this from Tom's Hardware: tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-reliability-failure-rate,2923.html
– Don Nickel
Commented Sep 21, 2013 at 18:51
Actually the article isn't saying that. To sum it up, both HDD and SSD display similar times, the study being aggravated by the fact that, at the time, SSD were only used for 2 years. The projections they make in the neat graph at the end fail from the same problem, they extrapolate as linear when the HDD reference is exponential. Not to mention the entrepreneurial aspect of the study. And I haven't read anything about RAID 0.
– Doktoro Reichard
Commented Sep 21, 2013 at 20:09

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