recommend Pcie RAID card pls

[Elf_Boy]

I have two nice shiny 60 gb SSD's with decent read/write speeds.

I already am aware of the pro's and con's of SSD raid 0, pls do not post on that topic except as it may relate to which raid card to use.

Pls recommend some Raid cards, I have need for two sata ports currently, I am hoping to have four available on the i/o card however.

I dont need too many bells and whistles (unless it doesnt affect price), I am hoping to find a card with true hardware raid.

My pipe dream would be for the card to be under $200, I am guessing that is unlikely, so how about as close to $200, and defiantly under $400 please?

My primary feature requested after it being hardware Raid would be though-put, all forms of read/write etc.

The primary uses of the computer, after the obligatory web/email/general computer stuff anyone does with their main machine would be gaming, I dont like waiting for areas, zones etc to load.

Thanks in advance!

*EB*

 

[Zedicus]

adaptec 6405 but NOT the E version.

if you watch ebay for a while you might pick one up for 150$. you can find one any day of the week for about 250$.

 

[Old Hippie]

LSI 9260-4i + Fastpath is the cheapest decent solution for RAIDing SSDs.

All the others will reduce performance in the important 4K - 4K-64Thrd specs.

It's not worth it to RAID 2X60GB SSDs.

Trade them for a single bigger drive or use the Intel RAID.

 

[AndyE]

I use up to 6x LSI 9207-8i HBA's per system
The cards are about 300$ each.

Benefits are manyfold:
Fast ROC (raid-on-chip) controller LSI 2308
PCI express 3.0 support
8 SATA 6Gb/s ports
450.000 k IOPS real world performance /card (with 8 fast SSDs)
rock solid sw drivers
With 8 fast SSDs, 4.2 GByte/sec sustainable seq transfer rate
Can be used to boot from (Depending on motherboard)

 

[Elf_Boy]

I will look those up - thank you.

I think 2*60 will be fine to boot with and place key apps (skyrim for example) for the speed.

I have 3.5 ter in bulk storage with my regular hard drives.

 

[omniscence]

It should be noted that 60 GB SSDs are usually much slower in the random data rates than their bigger counterparts. You did not specify which type of SSDs you have, but it is highly likely that you will get a significantly faster single SSD than your 2x60GB for the price of a 9207-8i.

 

[gjs278]

9260-4i with fastpath

 

[Old Hippie]

I will look those up - thank you.

I think 2*60 will be fine to boot with and place key apps (skyrim for example) for the speed.
.

You made a big mistake by buying 2X60 GB SSDs.

Don't make another one by a decent RAID card (9260-4i with fastpath ).

The LSI 9207-8i is not in any way, shape, or form equal to the 9260-4i + FastPath for SSDs in RAID.

The set-up alone will probably be worth more than your whole machine.

Personally, I think you're just a dreamer. LOL!

 

[DPI]

It should be noted that 60 GB SSDs are usually much slower in the random data rates than their bigger counterparts. You did not specify which type of SSDs you have, but it is highly likely that you will get a significantly faster single SSD than your 2x60GB for the price of a 9207-8i.

Pfft. Common sense has no place here. Two slow ass 60GB SSD's + $150+ raid card and no TRIM, FTW

 

[mwroobel]

You would be insane spending $200 to buy a RAID card to utilize your 60GB SSDs. At some point you just have jettison what you have and start fresh. Spend the $200 on a 256GB SSD which will be significantly faster, remove a second point of failure and not have to deal with the loss of trim (unless you want to run a hacked OROM or have the latest release motherboard chipset).

 

[Old Hippie]

Pfft. Common sense has no place here

LOL!

I'll be surprised if he posts in this thread again.

Buy 2X60GB SSDs and add a 450.00 accessory to make them go faster? LOL!

 

[Elf_Boy]

Once again I would like to remind everyone this thread was created to ask about raid cards.

Not to ask about your opinions about what I should do.

Pls stay on topic and stop trolling.

Thanks again to the people who replied on topic.

 

[Old Hippie]

Once again I would like to remind everyone this thread was created to ask about raid cards.

You've heard everything that's relevant ( including your bad decisions) that you're gonna hear on this forum.

Now's the time to sh!t or get off the pot. LOL!

 

[omniscence]

You got some suggestions for RAID controllers, i.e. LSI 2308 based ones for the low end and LSI 2108/2208 based ones with FastPath for the high end. But it does not matter what controllers you buy or whether you use onboard RAID, your setup will be bottlenecked by using only two slow 60 GB SSDs.

 

[M76]

HighPoint Rocketraid 2720:



With 4 x Samsung 830 256GB

 

[drescherjm]

HighPoint Rocketraid 2720:



With 4 x Samsung 830 256GB

Look at the 4K low queue depth reads. A single SSD 830 would be around 2 times the performance of this raid in 4K reads ( which should be a large % of your IO).