Hello,
I've been looking around for any information on RAID bandwidth testing on the new X99 chipset - in particular to see if it can exceed 1200MB/s. I need the speed for 4K video capture and transcoding, plus I will be building a VM box soon, so I'm interested in a fast caching solution as well. My plan is to use 4 to 6 850 Pro drives, and I'm hoping they can sustain 2000MB/s in RAID.
All data will be backed up to an external RAID 5 NAS box afterwards, so long term data integrity is of limited concern.
The reason why this X99 chipset RAID is particularly interesting is this chipset is different from both X79 (which only had 2 SATAIII ports) and Z8x / Z9x which are still bandwidth limited to about 1200MB/s. My understanding is this chipset has increased SATA bandwidth, and has 8 (10?) full speed native SATA III ports (unless you use M.2 or SATA Express).
Before anyone provides any theoretical information (such as just adding together throughput of SATA III drives), I'd appreciate it if information was based on actual benchmark results - either done yourself or linked to.
I did do some google searching and didn't find anything on the topic, but if your google-fu is strong, please post links. If I find something in the meanwhile, I will post as well -
TIA
I've been looking around for any information on RAID bandwidth testing on the new X99 chipset - in particular to see if it can exceed 1200MB/s. I need the speed for 4K video capture and transcoding, plus I will be building a VM box soon, so I'm interested in a fast caching solution as well. My plan is to use 4 to 6 850 Pro drives, and I'm hoping they can sustain 2000MB/s in RAID.
All data will be backed up to an external RAID 5 NAS box afterwards, so long term data integrity is of limited concern.
The reason why this X99 chipset RAID is particularly interesting is this chipset is different from both X79 (which only had 2 SATAIII ports) and Z8x / Z9x which are still bandwidth limited to about 1200MB/s. My understanding is this chipset has increased SATA bandwidth, and has 8 (10?) full speed native SATA III ports (unless you use M.2 or SATA Express).
Before anyone provides any theoretical information (such as just adding together throughput of SATA III drives), I'd appreciate it if information was based on actual benchmark results - either done yourself or linked to.
I did do some google searching and didn't find anything on the topic, but if your google-fu is strong, please post links. If I find something in the meanwhile, I will post as well -
TIA