I can get a 19cm cable - longest can make it apparently - any thoughts on reach of this?
Or another way to lay it out
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I can get a 19cm cable - longest can make it apparently - any thoughts on reach of this?
Or another way to lay it out
Personally I'd just do it the way I showed in my graphic. You'd have to raise the SSD right out of the entire bundle of GPU's and lay it probably horizontally just to fit it in the case. Not to mention you'd be using a very long cable and that will affect throughput and latency. The more noise you introduce the higher the chances that performance will go down.
Well you only actually need 9 slots. 8 for the GPU's and one for the OCZ card. So you have plenty.
2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 8 (GPU's) + 1 (OCZ SSD) = 9 total.
I'd probably fashion something out of aluminum to hold the last two cards and the OCZ SSD using the last 4 expansion brackets on the case as part of it to screw in to.
Others have done this previously: http://i.imgur.com/ZLmZe.jpg
2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 8 (GPU's) + 1 (OCZ SSD) = 9 total.
I'd probably fashion something out of aluminum to hold the last two cards and the OCZ SSD using the last 4 expansion brackets on the case as part of it to screw in to.
Others have done this previously: http://i.imgur.com/ZLmZe.jpg
Have you got a link to more of this guys stuff?
And sorry I still dont see how what you drew would work - can you draw it for a 10pci layout please
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So you dont think the enterprise RM84 would be any good at all realistically?
Good time to bring it up really - so no good? And if they are no good whats your best alternative fast reliable and nice capacity SSD for OS and scratching to (so temps etc).
No OCZ would solve a tone of these issues - but if you could still show the OCZ layout thatd be good
heheHave you got a link to more of this guys stuff?
And sorry I still dont see how what you drew would work - can you draw it for a 10pci layout please
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I don't have a link to more of it, but basically a university stuck a bunch of cards in a single case with an Asus P6T7 motherboard (7 PCIe slots like the Z9) and they built this aluminium cage that goes inside the case to hold all the GPU's away from the motherboard using PCIe ribbon cables.
And this is how you should be doing it:
Notice I've drawn in long black screws with a blue outterline for the extended cards to illustrate how you would anchor them to the pre-existing 9 Expansion slot screw holes. You would also need however to provide stability for the cards at the opposite end (not pictured) using some kind of card holder that you would need to build yourself.
So you dont think the enterprise RM84 would be any good at all realistically?
Good time to bring it up really - so no good? And if they are no good whats your best alternative fast reliable and nice capacity SSD for OS and scratching to (so temps etc).
No OCZ would solve a tone of these issues - but if you could still show the OCZ layout thatd be good
Simply purchase four Intel SSD's and RAID those using the motherboards built in RAID0 mode. That is pretty much all the OCZ PCIe SSD does anyway. They are made up of multiple SATA based SSD's on a circuit board with a traditional RAID controller.
Okay sounds like a plan - may just do two SSDs in RAID1 on the blue SATA sockets.
And then two pairs of four in RAID10 or something.
Interesting how Corsair specs say they should be faster but benchmarks say Intel. Oh well I think the above may need to be the plan.
I have to thank both of you SO much for all your help and advice.
And then two pairs of four in RAID10 or something.
Interesting how Corsair specs say they should be faster but benchmarks say Intel. Oh well I think the above may need to be the plan.
I have to thank both of you SO much for all your help and advice.
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Well I personally favor the Intel SSD's because they have the highest reliability. Last I read they have an RMA rate on their SSD's of around 0.77% - Followed closely by Crucial at around 0.80%. Compare that with OCZ who are like 6%.
Whatever you do, go for established controllers and stay away from the sandforce stuff in my opinion. They die so fast its like having a suicide bomber in your computer, it's not a question of if but when they will die.
Whatever you do, go for established controllers and stay away from the sandforce stuff in my opinion. They die so fast its like having a suicide bomber in your computer, it's not a question of if but when they will die.
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Samsung are also a good bet.
) Something to note about RAID and SSD's is the latest storage manager from Intel does support TRIM when SSD's are in RAID0 on the Intel storage controller. (C10R)
I don't know if they've yet released this for X79/C600/C606 but they have done so for Z77 and they have released public statements that they would be releasing it for X79. For all I know they have already done so I'm not 100% on the time scale.
So this means you will get idle cleanup beyond just the SSD's built in garbage collection resulting in longer sustained performance over the life of your deployment.
I don't know if they've yet released this for X79/C600/C606 but they have done so for Z77 and they have released public statements that they would be releasing it for X79. For all I know they have already done so I'm not 100% on the time scale.
So this means you will get idle cleanup beyond just the SSD's built in garbage collection resulting in longer sustained performance over the life of your deployment.
Im using RAID1 (SSD) and 10 (non SSD) - so does this matter?
As long as you put the SSD's on the Intel storage controller and not on any 3rd party chip that the motherboard may contain then it should work fine. I believe it will function through RAID0, 1 and 10.
Okay well it will all be on the Intel controller - will use the Marvell to get to my old files and hard disks etc.
SandForce make the Intel 520 SSD
Don't get that then, go for a Crucial or something.
Intels original SSD's used their own controller and had the best reliability. I wouldn't buy any SSD with a sandforce controller.
why not? personal experience or?
