Originally Posted by kwikgta (Post 2827729)

Thanks a lot guys. I'm just not into the whole SSD thing as far as size/cost and I wanted to be different. I do have a 140mm fan blowing across the drives. I may pick up 2 more velociraptors and run all 6 in raid just for shits and giggles. I will also say they are a lot quieter than the old raptors I had years ago.

Originally Posted by Jstn7477 (Post 2827742)

I wonder how fast the array would run on an Intel controller or a dedicated enterprise level card. If I remember correctly, a RAID 5 build I did with an Areca 1210 and 4x 500GB WD Blacks did around 340 max/180 min MB/s. Looks like your setup pretty much doubled those.

Originally Posted by Mussels (Post 2827799)

i'd have to agree with the SSD side of the fence here. yes you get less storage space, but at least you're not not limited by having all the drives operating as one.


sure you've got medium-speed and decent capacity... but try doing two file transfers at once and it'll choke like any mechanical drive setup. it cant multitask.

Originally Posted by Jstn7477 (Post 2827742)

I wonder how fast the array would run on an Intel controller or a dedicated enterprise level card. If I remember correctly, a RAID 5 build I did with an Areca 1210 and 4x 500GB WD Blacks did around 340 max/180 min MB/s. Looks like your setup pretty much doubled those.

Originally Posted by qubit (Post 2829024)

Someone posted on YouTube some time back a raid 0 setup with multiple SSDs, something like 10 of them I think. Damn that thing was fast! Booting Windows 7 was near instantaneous and the benchmarks were off the scale.

Originally Posted by kwikgta (Post 2827051)

Just installed four 500gig raptors in raid 0 into my rig. I'm very impressed with the outcome.

Originally Posted by drdeathx (Post 2828979)

1 drive fails, your done. All the money your spending would get you a beefy SSD with faster access time. Just sayin.

Originally Posted by EarthDog (Post 2829119)

Nice! But a single two year old SSD will beat that! :eek: :D

Originally Posted by drdeathx (Post 2828979)

1 drive fails, your done. All the money your spending would get you a beefy SSD with faster access time. Just sayin.

Originally Posted by Mindweaver (Post 2829184)

So by that logic 1 drive fail on a SSD, your done as well.. Correct? How much does a 2TB SSD cost? ;)



Not by size.. ;)

Now, I'm not saying he wouldn't be better off with a SSD, but how is he going to fit all of his games on a SSD if he's like say cadaveca.. Dave's got a lot of games and maybe this guy does as well. Let's tell him how he can get around limited space on a SSD. He could buy a 2TB drive and a 120 to 240gb SSD and use SteamMover to push games he's playing now to the SSD for those faster load times. :toast: You guys offered good suggestions, but failed to see the reason in having a 4x 500gb RAID0 array, which would be speed and space not just speed. :toast: His RAID0 Array is a nice setup, but once they die then I would grab a SSD and a beefy drive. :toast:

EDIT: Here is one of my SSD's speeds, but only 25% of your space.. lol
OCZ 240GB RevoDrive3 x2
http://img.techpowerup.org/120625/OCZ240gb.jpg

Originally Posted by EarthDog (Post 2829207)

LOL at those results... that thing needs some work as you are ramping up REALLY slow. Wow. I mean my four year old OCZ Summit was faster that that on the low end, something is wrong there for sure.

Normal speeds: http://www.funkykit.com/component/co...=xhtml&start=5

As you can see your .5-8k are BRUTALLY slow...with the rest very slow.



I get the point of space... and he is right, to each their own. That said, I would have bought a couple of 60GB SSD's and used intel's caching as that would still be faster than a pair of raptors, perhaps 3 even for the specific loads you mention.