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I see, you are addressing why use SSD instead of HDD? I did not get a RAID array to get increased speed over a single SSD. If I could have found an SSD that was larger than 8 TB and of a quality that could be used reliably for a long time, I would have bought it. Unfortunately, SSD drives are almost all pretty small so to get large capacity one has to get a Raid setup. SSD have advantages, of course, including speed, noise, and reliability. The speed is helpful when doing exports, imports, and retrieving multiple files at once. The time saved there is much less significant, but it does help. I figured since I was spending $$ on a speedy computer and needed another large external drive anyway, I should just go ahead and and get a fast external drive and remove bottlenecks where I can. I just copied nearly 8 TB of files from an HDD to my new RAID array. Only took 14 hours due to the slow speeds of the HDD. Hopefully, won't need to wait that long next time.... Edit: I did consider getting an HDD RAID setup to increase transfer speeds (over a single slow HDD) and capacity, but I figured that would not be cheap, be significantly noisier, take up more desk real estate, and be more likely to fail than an SSD RAID.
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