Looks like I need at least 4 SSDs.

I hate spending money on this stuff over and over and over and over.....:blink:

Here's 3 Intel SSDs. Intel Raid 0 - 128k stripe

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...testsuite3.jpg

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...rreadtest3.jpg

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...andomread3.jpg

Still on the ICH10R Steve?

Yes.....

I'm not sure if it will be worth getting another SSD. The performance increase from adding another one will show on a HDD test, but probably won't result in better 3D benchmarks.

Probably so. Do you actually see an increase in say 06 with faster hdd's? I know K|P and the greeks for sure still bench IDE for higher pcie freq.

I haven't done a comparison where I only changed the HDDs and left everything else the same. I did get a surprisingly high 3D06 score with a 2 drive RAID 0 of the new SSDs, but I also used new drivers and CPU and RAM so I am not sure where the gain actually came from.

Nice. BTW, are those X25-M or E series intel SSD's?

E series.

The tests were run without shutting down any processes, so I imagine I could do better.

Is that on an Areca? I ask because it looks like you are hitting a cieling of 400MB/s.

Get those 4 on a ICH10R.

2chesapeakes is still rockin with ICH10R. Don't give him any ideas or he will be ordering a 1232ML or better just for pcmark runs, lol.