So Akira4950 helped me out and got me thinking of the best way to upgrade my RIG. The suggestion is putting 4 SSD is a RAID using a RAID card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816118133
(4 SSD are going to be http://www.buy.com/prod/230306365.html)
My problem is i have never Set up a Raid card, Installed a SSD Card, or even set up a proper Raid Array.
What would you suggest the best Raid Array set up would be, and is there any help you can give me with how to instal, what to expect for problems and what to watch out for.....ect
Also i want to instal a fresh windows 7 64 bit onto the SSD, and also want to edit some footage on them as well? i am still keeping my 1TB internal HDD in as well
Thanks for the help!
Seeing as we will be doing an editing rig build for me in the very near future, we are looking at a dedicated solution for the raid card, that being either a LSI 2307 or 2308 based card, OR, an ASRock extreme 11 board, which has an onboard LSI controller. Now I say a dedicated solution is better, doesn't mean you can do it via the built in raid "software" on the board, you won't get the same speeds, but they are still kind of respectable, but a far cry from what a PCIe 3.0 card can do.
Setting up a raid array is a matter of booting into the BIOS of the raid card itself, or the BIOS on the motherboard, which almost all boards now can do "software" raid, which I don't recommend, but it's doable. To do the install of Windows 7 on this raid array, you would have to your drivers ready, as most of the time Windows will not detect the raid properly.
Best array for speed is RAID 0, but it's not technically RAID, thus being called 0, but it's the fastest, also known as striping. For security, but you lose half the drive space, that being, you have 4 drives, all 128GB, you only have about 240GB space. This is known as mirroring. Best solution for security and speed, but you still lose some space, is RAID 1+0, or RAID 10 as it's sometimes referred to, it's a mirrored array of striped disks. You have parity, and speed, the speed loss is negligible compared to RAID 0. Seeing as you have a 1TB internal, I would say RAID 0, you'll see the BIG benefit editing footage that way.
Im looking for a ssd setup, most likely raid 0, for a new gaming computer build im designing
My ideas so far:
pcie ssd card
4 sata III ssds with an on board raid (motherboard raid)
4 sata III ssds with a pcie raid card
requirements:
supports trim
between 1.5-2 gbps
fastest boot times / real world speed
is there anything better then this?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227742&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-_-pla-_-NA-_-NA
its says 1.5 gig read speed but some people benchmark it at only 600meg