For local development work, I'd recommend skipping raid altogether. RAID is all about uptime, and development work doesn't really benefit from that, much. Just pop in a 2TB NVMe drive and make daily backups. As for speed, the other week I had a new amazing experience: 1.2GB/s data xfer between NVMe drives, and that was over 700GB, so not just into cache. That's almost double the maximum theoretical SATA III speed, and my NVMe drive was able to *write* that fast.

On my backups server I started using zfs, which can do raid on its own. I'm doing the equivalent of raid 5 across 3 10TB drives for 20TB of storage.

In reply to Re^4: [OT] Reminder: SSDs die silently by NERDVANA
in thread [OT] Reminder: SSDs die silently by afoken

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