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I'm planning on setting up some new sshd's I purchased from Seagate in raid 1, but what I'm not sure of is how the ssd's are going to cache data from the drives in this configuration. I assume both the SSD portion of the drives and the HDD are going to be exact copies in the raid 1 array. 

What do you guys think? Has anyone set up sshd's in raid 1 or 0?

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http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/286575-32-seagate-hybrid-drives-raid

 

read this post above

 

but if you can afford 2 hybrid drives

 

would it be better to get a SSD and a normal HDD?

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What he said ^

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http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/286575-32-seagate-hybrid-drives-raid

 

read this post above

 

but if you can afford 2 hybrid drives

 

would it be better to get a SSD and a normal HDD?

Oh sorry forgot to include some context! (thanks for the link)

These are going to be pure data drives and loosing the content on them would be a huge problem for me. I use a cloud based solution in case of a fire but having additional on site redundancy is something I need as well. I have a 120gb Corsair Force GT as my main os and program drive. 

That brings another question to mind, if I wanted to raid 0 2 ssd's for my os/programs could I also run raid 1 at the same time for the other drives? I'm using my stock intel controller on my Z97 Sabertooth Mark 2.

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http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/286575-32-seagate-hybrid-drives-raid

 

read this post above

 

but if you can afford 2 hybrid drives

 

would it be better to get a SSD and a normal HDD?

I read through some of the replies and most of them don't really answer what I was looking for, the last comment was close. I really want to understand how the ssd portion of my sshd drives will act in a raid 1 array. Would they be direct mirrors of each other or would they both be able to cache data separately? 

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Oh sorry forgot to include some context! (thanks for the link)

These are going to be pure data drives and loosing the content on them would be a huge problem for me. I use a cloud based solution in case of a fire but having additional on site redundancy is something I need as well. I have a 120gb Corsair Force GT as my main os and program drive. 

That brings another question to mind, if I wanted to raid 0 2 ssd's for my os/programs could I also run raid 1 at the same time for the other drives? I'm using my stock intel controller on my Z97 Sabertooth Mark 2.

no issues with configuring 2 RAID from the onboard SATA controller 

 

all can be done using BIOS

 

I will suggest getting two WD Reds instead of the Hybrid drive for RAID 1

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I read through some of the replies and most of them don't really answer what I was looking for, the last comment was close. I really want to understand how the ssd portion of my sshd drives will act in a raid 1 array. Would they be direct mirrors of each other or would they both be able to cache data separately? 

we have no idea how RAID 1 may work on hybrid drives

 

no one has try that configuration

 

but usually hybrid drives are use as a in between for main drive when SSD is too costly for budget system and still need a lot of storage

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no issues with configuring 2 RAID from the onboard SATA controller 

 

all can be done using BIOS

 

I will suggest getting two WD Reds instead of the Hybrid drive for RAID 1

alright thanks, I've only ever done single raid 0 arrays up until now. 

I got the sshd's on sale but was eyeing the WD reds up until then. Went for the sshd's for the caching hoping to see some performance gains. 

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If you have the money I'd get 4 and aim for a raid 10  simply to use the drives to their fullest extent but thats just me. 

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