Storage array: Bare drives, SS, RAID, SSD, or other?

Viceroy · Oct 25, 2009, 09:46 AM

Obviously the basic hierarchy would go SSD(Intel x25-m; OCZ) > 10k(Velociraptor) > 7.2k(Spinpoint F3; Caviar Black; Barracuda) > 5.4k(Caviar Green), but I am curious to see the relative performance of these drives when short-stroked or put into a RAID array so that I can better decide which combination of storage devices would be of the greatest benefit to me, with price and hassle of course factored in. General ideas are welcome, but I believe what would help me the most are benchmarks and numbers and graphs.

Thanks.

EnglishLion · Oct 27, 2009, 07:07 PM

Did you see the youtube video of a 24x samsung SSD rig? Well worth watching, that's a quite array!

Jizzler · Oct 27, 2009, 07:20 PM

4 x WD Black 640GB, Matrix RAID-0/RAID-5, ICH10.

So yes, short-stroked and RAIDed is nice, though if internal capacity isn't a concern, I'd probably just grab a pair of SSD's. At the time I needed speed, capacity, and cheapness, so I went with mechanical drives.

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