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SSD caching raid 1 HDDs, possible?

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Hi All,

 

I am looking to purchase a Samsung Pro 840 256gb SSD, and also 2x  2TB WD Green 64mb and put them in raid 1 (mirror). I will be using the ssd as the boot drive by I was going to partition off some GB so that I could cache the raid 1 array.

 

Is this possible to do? And how much do you recommend taking off the 256gb for caching?

 

 

Thanks for the replies!!

 

-Willager

 

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I was wondering this too.

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I don't see why not. I'm caching my raid1 with my ram, tho.

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It sounds like it would be fine, because it shows as a single drive. Just wasn't sure though, and I tried googling but couldn't find too much on this subject.

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Yes, you can, with a solution like the OCZ Synapse SSD's. The on-board Intel solution will not work I think.

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Intel's on board ssd caching utility only supports up to 64gb I think since they didn't see much benefit after that point. Not sure if you can set up intel's utility in the configuration you want, but samsung should offer caching tools that will do the job. (again at the 64gb size for cache)

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