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1 hour ago, SCHISCHKA said:

How much difference does SSD cacheing make on a RAID array? I have an old spare 60Gb SSD lying around. Do you think it would be appropriate to use a five year old SSD as a cache? its from my old laptop and last time i did a SMART check it reported something like 13months of total use. Iv been using it in a USB adapter infrequently for over a year so I dont think its super old

It depends on the workload and your connectivity. I've experimented with SSD caching using Facebook's open source caching software and had mixed results during normal usage. If you plan on having multiple 1Gbps ports connected to a switch with a backplane that can support more than 1Gbps of throughput then SSD caching would be beneficial if multiple devices were all accessing the same data regularly. SSDs are really the only medium that would be usable with more than a 1Gbps connection unless you have a really nice RAID controller with a lot of cache and a sizable array of fast drives.

-KuJoe

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