Hello,
I am upgrading my rig, about 4 years old now, to a new setup. I haven't kept up well on the latest SSD improvements and worried about drives failing.
(for anyone interested in the details: Sabretooth x99, Intel I-7 5820k, NVidia GTX 970, Corsair 16GB (4 x 4GB) Vengeance LPX). It will probably be Windows 10 when available to me.
My questions for this forum is that I currently run 4- SATAIII 500GB drives in RAID10 and although I sacrifice some space, it's come in VERY handy as the original drives were Seagate that 3 out of the 4 crapped out (at different times) and I never lost a lick of data. Just some performance until I replaced each drive. Also, I occasionally do an image/snapshot to a Linux box (maybe once a month or every other month because I am paranoid.
In this new build, I'd like a usable 2TB or 3TB (vs the 1TB above) and I was going to do Western Digital Blacks. However, I could be swayed to SSDs but very nervous to drop RAID 10 for reliability purposes. Also, I've read about Intel SRT or putting the Windows swap file on SSD.
So, not that money's not a factor, but for purposes of both speed and reliability what is the current thinking of SSD performance vs. RAID 10 SATA-spinning drives? I am not opposed to higher spend if the solution is right.
Could I ask for some of the modern opinions on best way to set up?
Thank you kindly in advance,
Jeff
I am upgrading my rig, about 4 years old now, to a new setup. I haven't kept up well on the latest SSD improvements and worried about drives failing.
(for anyone interested in the details: Sabretooth x99, Intel I-7 5820k, NVidia GTX 970, Corsair 16GB (4 x 4GB) Vengeance LPX). It will probably be Windows 10 when available to me.
My questions for this forum is that I currently run 4- SATAIII 500GB drives in RAID10 and although I sacrifice some space, it's come in VERY handy as the original drives were Seagate that 3 out of the 4 crapped out (at different times) and I never lost a lick of data. Just some performance until I replaced each drive. Also, I occasionally do an image/snapshot to a Linux box (maybe once a month or every other month because I am paranoid.
In this new build, I'd like a usable 2TB or 3TB (vs the 1TB above) and I was going to do Western Digital Blacks. However, I could be swayed to SSDs but very nervous to drop RAID 10 for reliability purposes. Also, I've read about Intel SRT or putting the Windows swap file on SSD.
So, not that money's not a factor, but for purposes of both speed and reliability what is the current thinking of SSD performance vs. RAID 10 SATA-spinning drives? I am not opposed to higher spend if the solution is right.
Could I ask for some of the modern opinions on best way to set up?
Thank you kindly in advance,
Jeff