July 25, 201114 yr I'm curious if it will work... I'm going to build an unraid box w/ one of the zotac e-350 boards. I want to use an SSD for the cache drive so i can get great write performance. I was thinking of yanking the wifi card out of the mini pcie slot and dropping an SSD in there - that way I don't need to waste a drive bay on a real SSD. Thoughts?
July 25, 201114 yr If we could bond nics I'd say go for it. But since we can't are you sure it's worth the cost? I recently upgraded my cache drive to a retired WD Black 1TB and it gets sustained 86-94MB/s writes across my home network. (According to Win7) Gb Ethernet won't do much more than 100MB/s in a perfect world so it seems to me an SSD would be a lot of expense for little performance gain and a small cache drive.
July 25, 201114 yr the mSata SSD's are not very good performers, tend to be very small and not that cheap.
July 25, 201114 yr Author I'm pretty familiar w/ the cost + performance figures. I'm not super concerned about either - just more curious if anyone has tried an msata ssd with unraid. I don't need a huge cache drive as I don't write that often.
July 25, 201114 yr You'll have better performance with a standard/typical laptop 5400rpm drive than those miniPCIe mSata drives. Their performance numbers are absolutely horrible.
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