Whats Your Dream Raid Setup??
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I'm already living my dream RAID 0 setup....
It's an older setup (2 1/2 years old, primary hard disk), but still fast and powerful. Only disadvantage was it only got a 6.1 score in Win7 performance rating.
I'm running 2 Western Digital VelociRaptor 10k 300GB's in RAID 0.
I'm still kind of a n00b when it comes to raid, other than configuring the array but...is a ssd RAID setup worth it over what I have right now?
Question, how do I mirror my data on the RAID setup to my backup internal 500gb HD? I've heard of programs that do it but I'm not sure of what they are.
It's an older setup (2 1/2 years old, primary hard disk), but still fast and powerful. Only disadvantage was it only got a 6.1 score in Win7 performance rating.
I'm running 2 Western Digital VelociRaptor 10k 300GB's in RAID 0.
I'm still kind of a n00b when it comes to raid, other than configuring the array but...is a ssd RAID setup worth it over what I have right now?
Question, how do I mirror my data on the RAID setup to my backup internal 500gb HD? I've heard of programs that do it but I'm not sure of what they are.
If i remember right when you raid ssd's you lose trim support (if supported bt your ssd) so u have to defrag regular to keep performance but this may not be entirely correct. More research i think.
With regards to the speed difference their is an obvious reduction in boot times, load times etc but to upgrade from what you have may be expensive. Based on 2 mushkin callisto 60gb ssd at £90 each from aria (there are cheaper but slower and less support ones) thats gunna be £180 without a raid card (if thats what you run?) I believe that you would get noticable speed increase but with the high price and setup its a personal rather than cumpulsary upgrade
With regards to the speed difference their is an obvious reduction in boot times, load times etc but to upgrade from what you have may be expensive. Based on 2 mushkin callisto 60gb ssd at £90 each from aria (there are cheaper but slower and less support ones) thats gunna be £180 without a raid card (if thats what you run?) I believe that you would get noticable speed increase but with the high price and setup its a personal rather than cumpulsary upgrade
actually i like to change mine
4SSD in raid 0
4SSD in raid 0
REVO 4 SSD
Sounds Nice them revo drives look awesome
A OCZ Revo 4 boot drive with 2 2.5" ssd in raid for steam and the same for the other game drive.
that would be me sorted
Has anyone got a revo drive on the forums then?? Heard they awsome but dont know of that many people who have them!
As an addition to jeznator, when you raid ssd you lose the AHCI option in the bios (Whats needed for trim). Aparently Intel have released drivers so that trim works with certain raid configurations but as for other manufactorers i believe that there is no raid trim support to date.
For mirroring have you tried Acronis Trueimage? Its a pretty good program apparently
Hope this helps
For mirroring have you tried Acronis Trueimage? Its a pretty good program apparently
Hope this helps
Just one thing to mention about this... You definitely don't want to be defragging an SSD. It causes them a world of pain. Well it'll allegedly shorten their life.
The reason for this in short is that the process of defragmentation moves files that become positioned all over the HDD's platters closer together to speed up access times.
This isn't necessary on SSD's as it doesn't matter where the data is stored on the SSD chips as it will all be accessible at the same speed.
The reason for this in short is that the process of defragmentation moves files that become positioned all over the HDD's platters closer together to speed up access times.
This isn't necessary on SSD's as it doesn't matter where the data is stored on the SSD chips as it will all be accessible at the same speed.
If i remember right when you raid ssd's you lose trim support (if supported bt your ssd) so u have to defrag regular to keep performance but this may not be entirely correct. More research i think.
With regards to the speed difference their is an obvious reduction in boot times, load times etc but to upgrade from what you have may be expensive. Based on 2 mushkin callisto 60gb ssd at £90 each from aria (there are cheaper but slower and less support ones) thats gunna be £180 without a raid card (if thats what you run?) I believe that you would get noticable speed increase but with the high price and setup its a personal rather than cumpulsary upgrade
Guy on youtube named trubyd44, he is doing a huge build with like a 20k budget. 2 gtx 590s and a 4000 dollar tesla card working in unison, on a evga SR2 and two 1500 dollar cpus. All watercooled with 4x 360 rands and then one 480. 20 fans etc. And he has i think 10 256gb intel sata 3 SSD's, hes putting in raid. Its insane -.-
