I want the fastest NAS setup possible...

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(24-02-2013 13:44)simoncn Wrote:  There's also the (small) possibility of catastrophic failure without any prior warning, so it's important to keep a good backup.

I'm pretty sure that SSDs have a shorter service life than hardware disks; the fact of writing data degrades the electronics' ability to hold data (a feature of flash memory) so an SSD's life in some environments could be considerably shorter than an HDD's. It's along the lines of an HDD having a "Mean Time Before Failure" whereas an SSD has "Mean Writes Before Failure".
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