Good raid card choice ??

[joey117]

I have 4 samsung sdd in raid 0 and i am use on board raid i am looking a raid card to this me better performance really any cards come to mind? that will not break the bank

 

[JMOC]

Which motherboard do you currently have and are the ports 3Gb or 6Gb?

 

[joey117]

i have a Rampage 4 gene and my dives Samsung 250GB 840 Series Basic SSD and currently using 6gb port but only get about 600mb reads and 400mb writes in a raid 0

 

[S_I_N]

raid will not scale exponentially. I doubt adding a raid card will improve it alot if any plus it'll add to your boot times as the card will have to load its bios as well.

but before we dive in to deep why not lay out the rest of your system specs for us to aide you better

 

[joey117]

System Spec :

Rampage 4 gene Motherboard
Noctua NH-D14
Intel i7 3930k
corsair ax750 PUS
Samsung 250GB 840 Series Basic SSD x4
EVGA GeForce GTX 680

 

[S_I_N]

ok so your not taxing your pci-e lanes yet so you'll be fine adding a raid card but I'd google search the performance differences between what your using and whatever card your looking at.

 

[joey117]

I know you yes early but will i good raid card low the boot time ?

 

[S_I_N]

I know you yes early but will i good raid card low the boot time ?

not 100% sure what ya mean there lolbut a raid card will add to the preboor times yes. As it has a bios and drivers to load just as your onboard raid does. Now will it be longer than the onboard?? I cant say for sure all depends on whats needed to be loaded. If it was my rig I'd just run on the onboard and be done with it. I do it with my 2 Hyper X 3K's in raid 0

 

[joey117]

I am just trying to make to the boot better

 

[S_I_N]

then drop it to a single ssd for opsys and important programs and raid the other 3 within windows. This will stop the onboard raid bios from having to do its thing (quickening boot time) and the raid within windows takes no extra time to load so your where you want to be. How long does it take to boot into windows for you?? I can imagine its long at all.

 

[joey117]

From press the power botton to ready to use 45 sec

 

[S_I_N]

thats pretty good mate. remember during post up and raid bios thats not ur ssd's performing ssd's come in after post up and raid bios. So basically once ya see the windows logo which I bet you dont see much of lol. I'd save the money for other uses.

 

[joey117]

ok thanks i think your right leave well enough alone

 

[Bartacus]

Dumb question: did you enable the quick boot in the BIOS? I haven't timed my boot up, but I have similar hardware (R4gene, SSDs in RAID0), and it seems to boot faster than that, even with 4 HDDs. RAID card would definitely slow that down, as that cards BIOS has to load on post too.

 

[joey117]

Yea i have qiuck boot enable