MasterP said:
Most SSDs are slower than high-end 7200rpm SATAs.
You have to get a really expensive one to get a performance increase. Typically for the same price you could get 5-7 WD Black 1TB drives. If you stripped them your performance would still be higher on the standard drives than the SSDs so it’s really just a waste of money.
The failure rate on the expensive SSDs is pretty high too and once that data’s gone it’s gone forever. Not the “well you can pay out the *edited* to recover it” kind of gone but like really gone.
there are a lot of errors in that statement, and I would never stripe 5-7 drives as you are just asking for a failure, and highend SSDs are still going to be way faster in most cases, but the fact still remains that unless you are going to spend ~$500+ for a 128gb SSD, you really aren’t going to get enough of a performance improvement over a traditional hard drive to justify the price.