RAID 0 2 ssds?

redrage said:
well sunva... i suppose i should've looked more closely.. i saw 7-series and assumed x79 was included, nice to know its 'coming soon' though.

Just as well though. I kinda didn't want to re-install.

Quick Question: Real World usage ... is it worth using 2x 256GB Agility 4 Raid0 over a Samsung 830 256GB? Other than drive space of course.
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I doubt anyone has tested those two configurations against each other in real world situations. I think the more important question to ask yourself is do you want one good ssd or two dogs.
 
drescherjm said:
980 MB/s is not a real benifit to most applications since they do not read or write in chunks large enough to ever hit these speeds.
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When 250MB PSD's load at the blink of an eye. Mission accomplished!
 
When 250MB PSD's load at the blink of an eye. Mission accomplished!
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For that example would you have noticed the difference between ~500ms and ~300ms?
 
I am wondering how can you guys live with 120gb ssd's (not trolling or anything)
I need a good 300-500 to be good on space.
 
Verass said:
I am wondering how can you guys live with 120gb ssd's (not trolling or anything)
I need a good 300-500 to be good on space.
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For what?

120 GB ssd works more than fine for me I have 20 gigs free right now. What are you install Photoshop CS1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 or using it as your only drive?
 
bAMtan2 said:
I doubt anyone has tested those two configurations against each other in real world situations. I think the more important question to ask yourself is do you want one good ssd or two dogs.
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HAHA yeah. I was going to get a second 830 on black friday as I expected deals to drain stock. Didn't see any. Though so far i've had fair luck with OCZ drives
 
Go big or Go HOME.....LOL bunch of pussy's here now. When I joined HF it was all about numbers.....and to me still is.

Alienware M17x R4 with 2 Samsung 830's

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Owe and if New Egg didn't fuck up and send me one Hyper X 120gb instead of the 2 I ordered my desktop would be running 2 SSD's in raid now as well.
 
I've used Raid 0 on my main rig since WD released their very first Raptors, never a single problem with it. Raid 0 with 2 SSD's is stupid fast...
 
I was considering doing Raid-0 with 3 120GB SSDs, but that just seemed a little overkill :D
 
cmacclel said:
Go big or Go HOME.....LOL bunch of pussy's here now. When I joined HF it was all about numbers.....and to me still is.

Alienware M17x R4 with 2 Samsung 830's

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Your 4k results seem worse or, at best, the same as single drive. Would be interesting to see access times. There's hardly any benefit from RAID0 on a system drive, sometimes even the oposite.
 
Meeho said:
Your 4k results seem worse or, at best, the same as single drive. Would be interesting to see access times. There's hardly any benefit from RAID0 on a system drive, sometimes even the oposite.
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I don't think write-back cache is enabled.
 
The 4k reads are not better than a single SSD either. Although to me this is somewhat expected because pages on SSDs are not smaller than 4K so reading 1/2 of a page on each SSD should not improve performance.
 
Avoid Raid 0 unless benchmarks make you very happy or you time everything you do. There are so few real life scenarios that even the [H]ardest of us would struggle to see a noticeable improvement. I'm not an engineer but an enthusiast who's livelihood also relies on a balance with this kind of stuff.

I've got nearly 100 drives in Raid 6, 50, 10, 1, and 5 spinning across the hall. Of that lot six of those are SSDs. Those six 600GB SAS SSDs in a Hybrid RAID 6 are enough to handle peaks of 10k IOPS that are 4-8KB in size for a 1 TB SAP ERP database without a hint of slowdown or stutter. To my users it's nearly instantaneous. The running theory around here is that we could probably serve up close to 15-20k IOPS on that array before users would even notice a slowdown. Think you can duplicate that in your home office?

My home machine had up to 3 x SSDs in RAID 0 at one time. It shaved a couple seconds off an application install and about the same loading games after a shutdown. The act of initializing the Intel RAID array makes boot times slower than a single drive on AHCI with each drive standing alone.

All that said... I will probably run RAID 0 on my OS/game drive again because benchmarks make me happy :)
 
In the "Big Picture" here it seems everyone is missing is the fact that it costs less to run raid 0 over a single drive. I got 3 of the Kinston Hyper X drives, 2, 120gb's cost me $119 and a 240gb that cost me $150.

Cheaper with better performance sounds good to me anyday of the week.
 
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madrebel said:
no point arguing with them dude. BIG NUMBERS! is all they care about.
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Welcome to [H]. Why do people overclock to 8GHZ on liquid nitrogen? Because they can. Why do I put 2 SSD's in RAID0? Because I can.
 
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