Ssd or 7200rpm raid1?

[Ztdutxjgxgtu]

I got 1 7200rpm hdd
Buy ssd or 7200rpm hddin for raid 1?

 

[kanewolf]

Unknown. What do you want to do with it? RAID1, will protect from a very limited type of data loss. It is not a substitute for backups.

 

[Ztdutxjgxgtu]

Faster Boot drive
Ssd is still too overpriced imo

 

[USAFRet]

Faster Boot drive
Ssd is still too overpriced imo

RAID 1 has nothing to do with "faster boot drive".
A RAID 0 with HDD's is faster than a single HDD.
But much, much slower than a single SSD.

And gives worse than zero data protection.

 

[jaslion]

Faster Boot drive
Ssd is still too overpriced imo

Don't raid 0 drives. When one fails all data is basically gone. The performance increase is not that much too. Just get a 250gb ssd or bigger.