SSD in raid0 advice

[]MadBoy[]

has anyone got the ozc v2's in a raid setup as yet? I want to know as I've heard a bits that makes me concerned.

My idea was to have x2 30gig solid state drives for OS and Pagefile plus a small partition for games that I will play the most. Then have my standard drives with a backup OS on other raid setup x2 normall HD's.

Question, why can I not have the solid state drives in raid running off of the 1st and 2nd raid channel of the Mobo? Read here that it would be quicker off of a PCI-e raid card.... why?

 

[]MadBoy[]

am i right in thinking that the raid controllers on the mobo is going to be limited to 150mb/s. Standalone card depending on spec 780mb/s circa?

anyone know of a card that has the Intel IOP341(800MHz) chips with SATA II connects not SAS.

 

[Dee-27]

I wrote a small article on getting the OCZ Core V2 series drives working properly in RAID 0. The article might be of help to users here, so here is a link.
http://club.cdfreaks.com/f122/ocz-core-v2-ssd-drives-raid-awesome-256100/

 

[Yewen]

Check our benchies on what a onboard controller can manage with 2x Intel SSD drives.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17942896

A dedicated card improves performance but a very cheap software based card usually lowers performance in real world tests.

Go with the best you can afford, most modern motherboards onboard RAID is up to the job of running a SSD just fine.

 

[]MadBoy[]

dee thats a real good right up, do you think paying the extra to get a 256mb Raid controller will benefit?

 

[Dee-27]

dee thats a real good right up, do you think paying the extra to get a 256mb Raid controller will benefit?

Without doubt, yes. But i would suggest a x4 or 8x PCIE card is more important than just the cache.

 

[]MadBoy[]

i would love this.... Adaptec ASR-5405 but thats so much money

if the card has SAS connects which requires an expander.

1) what is the expander?
2) can you still use a sata device on them?

 

[doc]

i would love this.... Adaptec ASR-5405 but thats so much money

if the card has SAS connects which requires an expander.

1) what is the expander?
2) can you still use a sata device on them?

Usually they are SFF-8078 to Sata Break out cables, but check the Adaptec box, it may be a kit which comes with them.

 

[doc]

dee thats a real good right up, do you think paying the extra to get a 256mb Raid controller will benefit?

Onboard chips cost less than $5, so you get what you pay for.....

Which admittedly isnt bad if you dont want to pay for a 3rd party RAID card, but it is soooooo worth it......

 

[1kiwi]

Can you suggest a decent 'bang for buck' onboard raid card?

 

[]MadBoy[]

second the above..

what i am looking for is:
Capable of running upto 4 drives
Needs to be as fast as possible
Min of 128mb.
Works well with the v2's

Adaptec 2405 is a good base??

 

[]MadBoy[]

would the extra £80 be worth it for getting the Adaptec RAID 5405?
that has 512mb clocks at 1.2ghz Abit of future proofing there

Whats the difference between the 2405 and the 2420?? I will be running a 64bit os something to do with a 64 bit pci-X 3.3volt slot... which is?

 

[1kiwi]

The Adaptec RAID 5405 is almost £300

 

[1kiwi]

At that rate you may as well get the new Intel X25-M

 

[nightmare99]

Usually they are SFF-8078 to Sata Break out cables, but check the Adaptec box, it may be a kit which comes with them

The retail kit does come with the breakout cable

 

[RSR]

The Adaptec RAID 5405 is almost £300

Its a cracking bit of kit

Ive managed 250MB/S + using 2 146 Seagate Cheaters 15.5s

In RAID 0

Andy

 

[RSR]

The retail kit does come with the breakout cable

But not a SAS one