Fastest SSD setup/product?

p3ndldqny2 · 5 Sep 2010 at 01:17

I just wondered what is the fastest setup for read and write access?

I've seen SSDs which used PCIE, there's RAIDO 0, there's separate RAID controller cards etc.

So if money wasnt an obstacle, what would be the fastest setup for a workstation? Please include product name and setup config.

Off the top of my head (and im no expert) i thought it would be 4x Micron SSDs, in a RAID 0 with a specialised RAID controller card??

Oh and what would the Read/Write MB/s be (if you know)?

stulid · 5 Sep 2010 at 01:25

this hauls ass

www.bit-tech.net/hardware/storage/2010/09/03/ocz-revodrive-review-120gb/1

just a lack of TRIM may be a bummer.

d_brennen · 5 Sep 2010 at 01:27

Probably some exotic mix of RAID controller and enterprise level SSD, or a PCIE Revodrive. More to the point, whats the application?

p3ndldqny2 · 5 Sep 2010 at 01:34

d_brennen said:
Probably some exotic mix of RAID controller and enterprise level SSD, or a PCIE Revodrive. More to the point, whats the application?

Nothing specific in mind, but if i were to write something which required database accesses? Or reading files from directories?

d_brennen · 5 Sep 2010 at 01:37

Google search for fastest SSD setup leads back to here.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=fa...&ie=&oe=&redir_esc=&ei=6OWCTMjMDsqG4gbD8JXTCw

:cool:

Otherwise I truly don't know

p3ndldqny2 · 5 Sep 2010 at 01:41

From the PCI-E link above, even they suggested this in RAID0 would be better:

Crucial C300

whats the best dedicated raid controller, if you wasnt going to use your onboard mobo one?

p3ndldqny2 · 5 Sep 2010 at 01:50

http://forums.crucial.com/t5/Solid-State-Drives-SSD/4x-C300-in-RAID0-ATTO-bench/m-p/12994

reygjabla · 5 Sep 2010 at 09:44

p3ndldqny2 said:
From the PCI-E link above, even they suggested this in RAID0 would be better:

Crucial C300

whats the best dedicated raid controller, if you wasnt going to use your onboard mobo one?

If you care to read this http://www.anandtech.com/show/3812/the-ssd-diaries-crucials-realssd-c300/8 then, you might get some idea.

adsyf · 5 Sep 2010 at 12:34

You can check out this thread for some impressive numbers.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=258008

But the fastest subsystems seem to be an Areca 1880ix series raid controller with 4gb cache and as many ssds as you can throw at it. Currently SF , C300 or Intel (x25-e or 160GB gen 2s). I would guess that the Areca with the G3 intels (when released) will put anything else to shame.

TheBiznes · 5 Sep 2010 at 13:25

The 1880ix is fast I have one, but still trying to decide what drives to hang off it I have 2 Intel 80 GB at minute. The raid card only came out in the last month so availability may be scarce bought mine from the Netherlands.

Speedy Pete · 6 Sep 2010 at 19:26

stulid said:
this hauls ass

www.bit-tech.net/hardware/storage/2010/09/03/ocz-revodrive-review-120gb/1

just a lack of TRIM may be a bummer.

Just out of interest since i might be buying a revodrive what is TRIM ?? :confused:

!TIMMY! · 6 Sep 2010 at 21:31

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM

Speedy Pete · 6 Sep 2010 at 21:51

does anyone know what sort of impact not having TRIM on an ssd would make?

rush_syndrome · 6 Sep 2010 at 21:58

Had my Revo for a couple of months now and its still lightning fast. Don't appear to need TRIM as long as you leave some unallocated slack on the drive - currently have 100gb available to be used with 12gb slack. Revos use Sandforce and do their own maintenance when idle or so it would appear. Still very impressed with it although I did have a 'cannot boot issue' which was easy to cure once I found out how. Will buy another one soon

TheBiznes · 7 Sep 2010 at 23:41

Decided on drives to hang off the controller this is 4 f40 drives in Raid 0 64k stripe 1Gb setting. This is crystalmark 1GB and 100mb remember cache is working on the 100mb

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juno12 · 8 Sep 2010 at 15:58

Speedy Pete said:
does anyone know what sort of impact not having TRIM on an ssd would make?

not much if you don't copy/erase big files on it and you use it only as a boot/programms/games disk.

adsyf · 9 Sep 2010 at 17:17

@TheBiznes I take it you currently have 512mb cache did you get one of the 1880s with exchangable ram? On the other forum I linked to the some guys have upgraded to 4gb ram with massive speeds.

TheBiznes · 9 Sep 2010 at 18:25

Mine has just 512mb fixed not upgradeable still its fast as hell and a new firmware today released said to make further improvements.

craptakular · 10 Sep 2010 at 08:29

Speedy Pete said:
does anyone know what sort of impact not having TRIM on an ssd would make?

Not a lot as the Sandcontroller thingy is really good.

the_hilders · 3 Dec 2010 at 17:52

TheBiznes said:
Decided on drives to hang off the controller this is 4 f40 drives in Raid 0 64k stripe 1Gb setting. This is crystalmark 1GB and 100mb remember cache is working on the 100mb

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A set of 15k sas drives would be nice with the 1880ix controller.