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Good SSD for hardware RAID?

dgingeri
By dgingeri
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I know, I know, hardware RAID is passe, and not necessary for SSDs.  Mine is a special case, because I already have the hardware RAID controllers.  The fact is I already have two RAID controllers: a Dell H710 internal controller and a Dell H830 external controller, with an external 8 bay tower.  Currently, the internal controller has 6X4TB drives in a RAID 6 and the external tower has 8X1TB drives in a RAID 6, all mechanical.  The internal set is my main file share on a Windows 2019 server, mostly holding movie ISOs so I don't have to go get my DVDs to watch movies.  (Thank you cheap gray market Windows Server sellers.)  The external tower houses my hyper-v VMs. 

 

So, now I'm looking to replace the mechanical drives with SSDs.  I've tried a few different cheap brands in simple RAID 1 (the two remaining ports on the H710) but they keep having one drop out of the set.  I've been through Inland, Silicon Power, and Crucial MX500 so far, and I've rather not waste more money if I don't have to.  Does anyone know a good brand/model that does actually work with hardware RAID?

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Or is faulty.

 

 

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Maybe I just had bad luck.  That set dropped the second drive 3 times in a week, but it was always the same drive.  I'm now using them as my temp drive and VM (Virtualbox) drive on my main system.  Maybe I'll give them a second chance, maybe.  I would like more than one confirmation of them working before overriding my experience.

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If it's always the same drive it'd point to either the specific port, cable or the drive itself having an issue...

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Desktop: i9-13900K, ASUS Z790-E, 64GB DDR5-6000 CL36, RTX3080, 2TB MP600 Pro XT, 2TB SX8200Pro, 2x16TB Ironwolf RAID0, Corsair HX1200, Antec Vortex 360 AIO, Thermaltake Versa H25 TG, Samsung 4K curved 49" TV, 23" secondary, Mountain Everest Max

Mobile SFF rig: i9-9900K, Noctua NH-L9i, Asrock Z390 Phantom ITX-AC, 32GB, GTX1070, 2x1TB SX8200Pro RAID0, 2x5TB 2.5" HDD RAID0, Athena 500W Flex (Noctua fan), Custom 4.7l 3D printed case

 

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13 minutes ago, dgingeri said:

I'm looking to replace the mechanical drives with SSDs

A bigger HDD will be more beneficial. You're storing files, it's not like you need the performance.

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I don't really need more space.  I need more speed for my VMs.  My 8X1TB set is more than a little slow to respond, and my web server VMs don't do well on it.  (Constellation drives never have been great performers, and their reliability is suspect now that they're reach 5 years old.) 

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