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GFDuke · #1 06-27-2009

You know about my SSD;s so i will say this. OCZ drives rock. Yes they are expensive and i have no regrets. Their support forums are awesome. But if i could do it again i would go with these. They are slc drives and are super fast. The 60gb and under are usually mlc drives. I think 2 of these would come very close to my 4 60gb drives. Do you plan on using your onboard RAID? With any luck you have a ICH10 controller onboard.

OCZ 120gb SSD's

Kal-EL · #2 06-27-2009

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Originally Posted by GFDuke

You know about my SSD;s so i will say this. OCZ drives rock. Yes they are expensive and i have no regrets. Their support forums are awesome. But if i could do it again i would go with these. They are slc drives and are super fast. The 60gb and under are usually mlc drives. I think 2 of these would come very close to my 4 60gb drives. Do you plan on using your onboard RAID? With any luck you have a ICH10 controller onboard.

OCZ 120gb SSD's

Nope to onboard, I have an Areca-1220 8 sata port raid card to use. Which SSD's are u suggesting?

hellcamino · #3 06-27-2009

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Originally Posted by Kal-EL

Nope to onboard, I have an Areca-1220 8 sata port raid card to use. Which SSD's are u suggesting?

It appears from what Neuromancer is saying that you will end up capped at about 400 mb/s with your Areca, if you use the ICH10R that is onboard for any modern intel board you will do significantly better.

That said I use a pair of the 30gb vertex drives for my os on an ICH10R sb.
3x74gb raptors up top and my 2 ssd's below both running on a 128k stripe.

Neuromancer · #4 06-27-2009

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Originally Posted by hellcamino

It appears from what Neuromancer is saying that you will end up capped at about 400 mb/s with your Areca, if you use the ICH10R that is onboard for any modern intel board you will do significantly better.

That said I use a pair of the 30gb vertex drives for my os on an ICH10R sb.
3x74gb raptors up top and my 2 ssd's below both running on a 128k stripe.

Yah the MTRONs Dom was raiding have significantly, lower read writes than the vertex. 2 will max out the aerca and 4-5 will max out hte 800MHz IOPS controller (Areca 1232?)

EDIT: wow very nice