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    Software Fusion and RAID alternative

    The article suggests that the rebuild is the problem. In the case of RAID0, if you lose one SSD, you lose the entire array. There is no rebuild, because there's nothing left to rebuild with :) Another concern is the lack of TRIM support on RAID arrays that aren't using Intel's latest...
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    Software Fusion and RAID alternative

    I have 3x HyperX 3k's in a RAID0. Numbers attached - I assume the lower numbers are due in part to the Sandforce controllers issue with incompressible data? Still, I would expect them more in-line with the numbers from the RocketRAID 640L...
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    Software Fusion and RAID alternative

    Since it hasn't been discussed much, I figured I'd mention an alternative to software-based "fusion" drive and RAID approaches. The Highpoint Rocket 640L (not RocketRAID 640L) is a 4-port PCI-e SATA3 card (2x, so max ~1000MB/s throughput) that is natively supported by ML (and Unibeast). It's a...
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