[OpenIndiana-discuss] SSDs for OI hipster ZFS root mirror?

[Carl Brewer]

Rather than use a couple of 1TB WD red pros or Blacks, is it a good 
choice to run a ZFS root mirror on a couple of SSDs? I figure I'd only 
need 250MB or so, all the data etc will be on spinning drives in a 
raidZ-something array, the root system - apart from swap, will be pretty 
static read-mostly

So I'm considering running a couple of Samsung 250GB SSDs, any thoughts 
or war stories before I go and buy them? Is it better to stagger them in 
terms of age, or different brands/models so they don't both run out of 
writes at the same time?  Is this setting me up for a disaster in 3 
years, or will it be predictable and easy to maintain?

I don't think there's any status monitoring software for them that would 
run on OI?


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