Velociraptor Raid 0.....Round 2!
 

Six Velociraptors in Raid0! Smokin!

Holy f**k, how many raptors have you got in that array? 900+MB/s is very nice for HDD's

Thanks! I have 6 of the new 500 gigs.

The amount you spent, you could have gotten a Revo II drive and been faster and better performance. The access time on your drives is a meager 5.5ms. Great results though.

He wouldn't of got 3TB worth of storage with the revodrive though would he? or half as much of the fun of raiding 6 velociraptors :toast:

I've spent $630,so cost was not a concern. I'll run the 6 Raptors until I decide to get something else, then each of my kids will get an upgrade of 2 Velociraptors each in their computers.

Could you run Crystalmark and post the results? Interesed in 4K and 4KQ2 scores

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CrystalDiskMark 3.0.2 x64 (C) 2007-2013 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 551.737 MB/s
Sequential Write : 798.125 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 73.364 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 277.671 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 1.084 MB/s [ 264.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 20.059 MB/s [ 4897.2 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 9.656 MB/s [ 2357.5 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 20.116 MB/s [ 4911.1 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [C: 5.5% (101.9/1862.5 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2013/02/01 19:46:24
OS : Windows 7 Ultimate Edition SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)

QD scores are low..... you could post a screenie too to make it easier. 1 SSD still offers better all around performance..IMO

You're missing the point. I DO NOT want an ssd right now. I bought these to be different, have a little fun, and then pass them to kids computers when I decide to upgrade.

I was just making a comment. I saw your pupose. Hope you had fun doing it. Looks fun.

Here is As-ssd screen shot.

Did some tweaking....new best.

I'd be curious to see what kind of speeds you would get with a RAID 10. :toast:

Never used it....what would it gain me?

Redundancy, 3 drives in RAID0 being mirrored (RAID1) to the other 3 drives in RAID0.
Would be a fun little exercise, but it would not be as fast as having all 6 in RAID0.

I actually appreciate threads like this. SSD's are all that and a cup of coffee...but....I miss the sound of my raided arrays crunching away. Perhaps it's just for nostalgia sake, or I'm old fashioned...I don't know.

I've got a couple of 80gb Raptors from HP lying around...and after looking at them on ebay, I can buy them for 20-30 bucks, I may just get motivated to playing around with a raid array myself.

Please continue to post your experiences with your setup, I for one...enjoy reading threads along this line.

I have an extra(well many extras)LGA 775 socket set ups lying around, I'll probably do it in one of these. What are the specs of the pc you're using?

Best,

Liquid Cool

You're a good egg. :toast:

Thanks a lot :) I've had a blast playing with the raid set up. I'm not sure what else I could do other than maybe add one of those 512 cache raid controller cards. They are expensive and really not sure what it would gain me over my onboard raid. My system specs are in my signature.

Hmmmmm... my server has 8 10k 147gb SAS drives maybe I should see what they can do in a raid 0.

Please do so... :respect:

That would be awesome, do it!!

@OP
now use a ramdisk, then run some tests

Disappointing results, too lazy to tweak.
Proliant ml350 g6
Xeon E5530
6gb
server 2k8 x64
8 10k 147gb SAS in raid 0
os drive: random 2.5 320gb drive I had lying around


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http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/...psdb3004bf.jpg

That is some serous spinning