System / RAID card / case for 10 x SSD?

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Hi all,

I have recently come into possession of 10 x 512GB OCZ SSDs. I was thinking of a new system anyway and before I even get into graphics cards, CPU, etc, ca anyone recommend a large case & RAID card that can handle this number of SSDs + five or six traditional hard drives.

I do fancy just buying an OCUK system but when I have these kinds of parts....well...be rude not to. Maybe I get a custom built system of some kind with water cooling.

I know this is a very open ended question so appreciate any advice.............
 
Better make it RAID with lots of redundancy...
OCZ went bankcrupt because of having quite a few "less than stellar" products.

Standard 3.5" bay can take two 2.5" drives in adapter:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/akasa-ssd-and-hdd-adapter-2.5-ak-hda-03-cm-019-ak.html

And there are adapters taking up to 6 2.5" drives in one 5.25" bay.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk...x-5.25-storage-adapter-oc-0525-sa-007-op.html
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/lian-li-bz-525b-5.25-rack-to-4-x-2.5-adapter-black-ca-404-ll.html
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/icy-...25-front-bay-with-raid-support-hd-017-id.html

So for as long as case has lots of device bays there are options.
Soemthing like this could take those drives.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/lian-li-pc-a76x-full-tower-case-all-black-ca-574-ll.html
Or especially this:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/lian-li-pc-d600wb-big-tower-black-ca-652-ll.html


And there are RAID controllers with up to 24 drive support.
OcUK doesn't seem to havbe any of those.
 
Unless it's mirrored RAID I would never trust that many SSD's RAID'd. True story i own 10 SSD's and 5 have had issues, and these were good brand names not the OCZ stuff. For the time being i've given up on SSD's and just gone back to enterprise drives, the SSD's are miles faster but i've had enough of Windows intermittent booting and SSD eventually failing, then all the time to re-install work / software again, I've adopted turn computer on and make a coffee time while PC is booting approach, it's slow but with Western Enterprise RE drives it stays working.
 
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Probably didn't have TRIM or equivalent enabled.

You'll want something somewhat high-end to prevent a bottleneck. LSI 9*** series perhaps.

8-port controllers are far easily obtainable than 12 or 16, so for that reason I'd personally do 8 in RAID 10 and 2 as spares.
 
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