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Using RAID on individual bits?

Krocket
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If you can use RAID arrays among drives then what's to keep the manufacturer from doing it between individual gigs, megs, bytes, or even bits? Could you not in theory write and read from each bit at the same time or is there a little thing that has to read and write between them individually? Could you make more of those so you could write terabytes of information to an empty drive in under a second? Don't know much about the science behind SSDs.

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If you wanted to fill an entire SSD in a short amount of time, you could (theoretically) put all of the NAND chips in RAID 1. That would give your SSD a total capacity of around 4GB.

 

Maybe i just dont understand the question, but from what i understand of the question i think you might be confused as to how RAID works. RAID works with multiple separate drives, and can be used to make a logical volume larger and/or faster than any single drive. It does not, however, increase the capacity or speed of any individual drive.

~Judah

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If you wanted to fill an entire SSD in a short amount of time, you could (theoretically) put all of the NAND chips in RAID 1. That would give your SSD a total capacity of around 4GB.

 

Maybe i just dont understand the question, but from what i understand of the question i think you might be confused as to how RAID works. RAID works with multiple separate drives, and can be used to make a logical volume larger and/or faster than any single drive. It does not, however, increase the capacity or speed of any individual drive.

I know. You can RAID 0 2 64GB SSDs together so why not theoretically RAID 0 1,024,000,000,000 single bit SSDs together? For the same amount of storage.

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I know. You can RAID 0 2 64GB SSDs together so why not theoretically RAID 0 1,024,000,000,000 single bit SSDs together? For the same amount of storage.

 

Because if any one of those 1,024,000,000,000 drives fails, you lose the entire array. Also, finding a SAS RAID card that could support more than 128 drives would be nearly impossible.

 

It is a good idea, but i really doubt it could work. Even at a 0.01% drive failure rate, your looking at 100 million plus dead single-bit drives.

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