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Near as I recall the answer used to be 'no' but I suspect it may have changed recently. Can one have the windows boot partition in an SSD raid array, specifically a Raid 5 array?
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boot disk part of Raid 5 array?
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Yes, the RAID controller has just to be bootable. You can boot from an Intel onboard RAID5 for example. But I strongly recommend against the Intel RAID5. Also, SSDs are better off in mirrors anyway.
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Why are SSDs better off in mirrors? Seems kind of like a speed and materials sacrifice.
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Why would it be a speed sacrifice? When I said mirrors I meant of course RAID10 when you have at least 4 drives. Why do you even want RAID5?
Low queue depth random IOPS (the main benefit of SSDs) will most likely decrease with RAID5 unless you have a proper RAID controller (means it has a battery/flash backed write cache).
For the price of such controller you can buy almost 2 TB of SSD space with current models and prices.
Maybe you can add what your application/expected workload will be, the RAID controller you have or plan to buy and the type of SSDs you have to give a better suggestion.
Low queue depth random IOPS (the main benefit of SSDs) will most likely decrease with RAID5 unless you have a proper RAID controller (means it has a battery/flash backed write cache).
For the price of such controller you can buy almost 2 TB of SSD space with current models and prices.
Maybe you can add what your application/expected workload will be, the RAID controller you have or plan to buy and the type of SSDs you have to give a better suggestion.
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