Date drive with fast Read and Write performance

Sylver123 · 18 Mar 2015 at 20:51

Hello guys.

I have at the moment pair of samsung hd103sj 1tb drives configured in RAID 0 that I use for downloading my data from the internet onto
the raid 0 drive and then archive the data in .rar format once downloaded to the drive, then for transfer onto a external storage drive.

The thing is I really need a drive setup with at least 2TB of space and which has much better Read and Write performance for doing these
tasks. A SSD drive would be ideal for this but I have read that when doing frequent big data writes on the drive, it will shorten the life
span of the SSD drive and kill it more quickly.

Is this still the case with SSD Drives and it is not suited for this kind of tasks or are modern SSD drives more capable of handling
frequent big data writes on the drive?

What are my options of getting a drive setup that has at least 2TB of storage space and has very good Read and Write performance for
.rar achiving as quickly as possible and moving data on and from the drive as quickly as possible and is not too expensive?

My current computer setup is more than capable of doing these kinds of tasks as quickly as possible but my samsung hd103sj
1tb RAID 0 setup is the bottleneck here.

Thank you in advance for suggestions.

wazza300 · 18 Mar 2015 at 21:24

the Seagate barracuda 2tb drives are fast

you could also try caching your current 1tb raid array with a 60gb ssd? I think x99 supports it

Sylver123 · 18 Mar 2015 at 23:28

Would caching my 2tb raid array with a SSD really make much of a difference on the Read and Write performance of the raid array?

Apart from a SSD, the only other thing that might give me near SSD Read and Write performance is a pair of
Western Digital VelociRaptor 1TB 10000RPM drives configured in RAID 0.

That set up will cost me nearly £400 thought.

wazza300 · 19 Mar 2015 at 00:41

Its not worth it IMO,and yes caching would be as fast as the ssd,it just stores 60gb of the most read and written data

lude1962 · 19 Mar 2015 at 09:34

why not more than 2 disks as you're raid 0?

So you rar the data on to the raid 0 drives from your raid 0 drives then copy to external, can you output the rars's direct to the external storage as opposed to multiple read writes or you want 3 copies of the data, raw and rar on raid plus backup rar on external?

Sylver123 · 19 Mar 2015 at 18:10

I am afraid I am not able to RAID anymore than 2 drives for this because my motherboard is full of RAID configured
drives and there is no more spare RAID compatible SATA slots available.

I have two pairs of SSD Drives configured in RAID 0 taking up nearly all of my RAID compatible SATA slots and the
x99 platform has a chipset limitation where you can only RAID up to 6 drives using the onboard SATA slots.