Raid with an old SSD?

[SavageThrash]

Hey all,

I picked up an M500 about a year ago for a new build. Seeing some nice deals on the M500 now I am thinking about going the raid route. Is this a bad idea with a drive that already has some wear and tear on it?

 

[Lost-Benji]

Chances of them both having same firmware and/or hardware, very remote.

Buy a pair at same time if going RAID is my best advice.

 

[Pandur]

You may not be able to get a perfect matching drive. But that's not the same as saying it's a bad idea or that it's not going to work. It's just not the best idea.

You can secure erase your current drive to get it back to near "mint" condition. Then you can build a raid array which should work just fine for a long time. Personally I'd be more worried about a failure in the new drive than the one that's been working for a year already.

 

[SavageThrash]

Good points, I hadn't though about firmware or chip differences over this length of time.

Perhaps I will just keep waiting until the current gen of SSDs gets this cheap.

 

[cortexodus]

I ran one of my Samsung 830's for a year or so before I picked up another one and put 'em in RAID0. It's still working fine despite the write differences on the drives(1.7TB on the older one, 756GB on the newer ).

Lost-Benji's point about firmware may be important, though. The firmware on my drives is the same.