I know this is an ancient thread, but you seem to have gone through some thorough testing, so I could use your insight.
I have tried 4 cheap Transcend SSDs with this controller before, and after a couple of months, each drive started being reported as "failed" by the controller. Removing it and reinserting it would fix, but eventually I went back to the SAS drives I had before. Transcend support would not help me, as the drives were not tested in server RAID environments.
I now want to try it again with different (presumably "better") drives.
Have you experienced any long-term problems with your setup? Do you have any idea whether any form of wear leveling is being done at the drives? I presume the controller does not support wear-leveling, so I want to try some drives that allegedly take care of that by themselves.
I have tried 4 cheap Transcend SSDs with this controller before, and after a couple of months, each drive started being reported as "failed" by the controller. Removing it and reinserting it would fix, but eventually I went back to the SAS drives I had before. Transcend support would not help me, as the drives were not tested in server RAID environments.
I now want to try it again with different (presumably "better") drives.
Have you experienced any long-term problems with your setup? Do you have any idea whether any form of wear leveling is being done at the drives? I presume the controller does not support wear-leveling, so I want to try some drives that allegedly take care of that by themselves.