In the spirit of the season, I need some advice on how to sanitize the storage configuration of my parents office PC.
Until now they have two 1TB HDDs in RAID1 inside the PC plus a RAID1 on a NAS in a slightly remote location for nightly backups. Set up by their local IT guy.
Since the PC is pretty old (actually slow as f***) and I figuered out their workload is surprisingly IO-heavy with large databases I think it is time for a new setup with SSD storage. While keeping the NAS for backups.
Cost is not that much of an issue here, loosing a days work or not being able to access the PC for a few hours would be a real issue since they are running an actual business from home. So in theory, a raided SSD storage could be a solution. Reading through some recommendations, I got the impression that RAID (especially RAID1) with consumer SSDs is not necessarily a good idea. Arguments brought up are missing TRIM support on raided SSDs and the chance of corrupt data from a failing SSD being mirrored to the good SSD in a RAID1.
tl;dr
I need ~1-2TB of SSD storage for an office PC with high availability. A nightly backup to a NAS is already established.
Until now they have two 1TB HDDs in RAID1 inside the PC plus a RAID1 on a NAS in a slightly remote location for nightly backups. Set up by their local IT guy.
Since the PC is pretty old (actually slow as f***) and I figuered out their workload is surprisingly IO-heavy with large databases I think it is time for a new setup with SSD storage. While keeping the NAS for backups.
Cost is not that much of an issue here, loosing a days work or not being able to access the PC for a few hours would be a real issue since they are running an actual business from home. So in theory, a raided SSD storage could be a solution. Reading through some recommendations, I got the impression that RAID (especially RAID1) with consumer SSDs is not necessarily a good idea. Arguments brought up are missing TRIM support on raided SSDs and the chance of corrupt data from a failing SSD being mirrored to the good SSD in a RAID1.
tl;dr
I need ~1-2TB of SSD storage for an office PC with high availability. A nightly backup to a NAS is already established.