Hybrid raid solution...

Hello Everyone,

I am building a new machine and was to have high capacity fault tolerant storage with the speed of an SSD.

I am considering using an LSI 9265-8i with HDD's in a RAID 1 configuration and a couple of SSD's and CacheCade for read caching (CacheCade Pro 2.0 should be available for the 9265 soon which will cache writes).

My worry is that the SSD's will degrade in performance pretty quickly because they are being used for caching, TRIM cannot be passed to them, and I won't be able to run optimization software (think Intel SSD Toolbox).

First, should I be worried about this? Secondly, are there recommendations for SSD's which fare better in this situation? Do special cache based SSD's work without their associated software?

Thanks,
Eric