Re: Contemplating SSD Hardware RAID

* Yeb Havinga:

> I forgot to mention that with an SSD it's important to watch the
> remaining lifetime. These values can be read with smartctl. When
> putting the disk behind a hardware raid controller, you might not be
> able to read them from the OS, and the hardware RAID firmware might be
> to old to not know about the SSD lifetime indicator or not even show
> it.

3ware controllers offer SMART pass-through, and smartctl supports it.
I'm sure there's something similar for Areca controllers.

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