Fell<p>My /home directory was stored on a RAID 0 composed of two cheapish SSDs, and one of them already has "slow sectors".</p><p>I migrated it to the next best thing I had lying around: An array of 4 mechanical HDDs in RAID 10. (far2 layout)</p><p>You would think that HDDs would be painfully slow, but it's not that bad, actually. </p><p>It's very slightly slower, but it appears that 4 HDDs working together can almost beat a cheap chinese SSD.</p><p><a href="https://ma.fellr.net/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://ma.fellr.net/tags/SSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SSD</span></a> <a href="https://ma.fellr.net/tags/HDD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HDD</span></a> <a href="https://ma.fellr.net/tags/Storage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Storage</span></a> <a href="https://ma.fellr.net/tags/Performance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Performance</span></a> <a href="https://ma.fellr.net/tags/RAID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RAID</span></a></p>