June 2, 201610 yr Yes, I know this is 100% not recommended, due to TRIM issues, not supported for non-cache disks, yadda ya. But I'm wondering HOW non-supported this is. I ask b/c I have an opportunity to receive a box of approx. 80 SSDs from a friend who works in QA at a SSD vendor, and they are just gonna junk 'em (250gb avg size). So for giggles, I'd like to build another stupidly massive rig, maybe a 48 bay case, with all the SSDs. My question is, just HOW unsupported would this be? is this an exercise in futility? I know you'd be out of your mind to buy 48 SSDs, but since the only cost is the box and the unraid license..I was thinking of having a go at it.. Any word to to the unwise about this undertaking? Is storing data info on an SSD that bad of an idea?
June 2, 201610 yr Community Expert I've been a 30 SSD server for some time with no issues, TRIM won't work on array devices, so write performance won't be optimal, there's a small chance that some SSDs garbage collection routine could invalidate parity, all evidence points to the contrary, but any problem would be detected when running a parity check. BTW, max array devices are 24 for unRAID up to v6.1 and 30 for v6.2-beta.
June 2, 201610 yr Author well giddyup cowboy, I'm gonna take a crack at it. 30 device limit, really? Hmm...I was going to run 6.2 (so far the beta seems great, love the 2nd parity disk) So the 'unlimited' really has a limit then....whelp, a 24 bay array is a lot cheaper and half the height of a 48 bay so... thx for the real-world testimonial. I'll let everyone know what becomes of it.
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