Lane Posted May 22, 2018 Member ID: 26995 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 2 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 35 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 18 Achievement Points: 302 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/05/18 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 17, 2024 Birthday: 09/26/1967 Device: Windows Posted May 22, 2018 So being that I designed my PC to run off of 6 SSD drives and I am currently only using one. Should I take the next step to rebuild? Or should I write it off and start all over with a new rig. I just thing the wife will be mad if I breake the bad news to her that it is time again.
Mr.Quiggles Posted May 26, 2018 Member ID: 22837 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 1 Topic Count: 2 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 9 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 3 Achievement Points: 72 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/11/15 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 5, 2024 Posted May 26, 2018 You're saying you have 6 SSD drives in the computer, but Windows is only on one drive? You'd have to reinstall the OS after creating a RAID-0/1/5/10, etc if you wanted to utilize them all (wipes all existing data).
RobMc Posted May 26, 2018 Member ID: 25355 Group: ** Registered Users Followers: 31 Topic Count: 272 Topics Per Day: 0.09 Content Count: 5824 Content Per Day: 1.90 Reputation: 9236 Achievement Points: 63677 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 141 Joined: 12/14/16 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 14 Birthday: 01/05/1954 Device: Windows Posted May 26, 2018 If you are both trying to get your post counts up good job
KaptCrunch Posted May 27, 2018 Member ID: 389 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 48 Topic Count: 315 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4867 Content Per Day: 0.85 Reputation: 4039 Achievement Points: 39385 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 49 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 3 hours ago Birthday: 01/01/1970 Device: Windows Posted May 27, 2018 in command prompt type " msinfo32 " without quotes will tell what version of OS are running now Awards
J3st3r Posted May 27, 2018 Member ID: 2162 Group: ++ COD4 Admin Followers: 153 Topic Count: 152 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 5223 Content Per Day: 1.00 Reputation: 5172 Achievement Points: 45901 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 24 Joined: 01/25/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: 9 hours ago Birthday: 02/26/1972 Device: Windows Posted May 27, 2018 (edited) Raid SSD drives? Hell no. Been there done that. In most cases it will actually be Much SLOWER than a single hi read/write speed SSD because of the raid controller and the . And forget about striped Raid. Your sequential writes will be faster but your Read speeds will be cut almost in 1/2 It will be slower than a single SSD in the long run. Check this chart out. There are Samsung 840 evo drives. 128gb 256gb and 512gb all tested as single drives and raid 0. Raid 0 striped was not included in this graph because it was less than 1/2 the performance of a single SSD drive. Raid 0 Non striped was a whopping 2-3% faster but you have No backups if 1 drive were to crash. Raid 5 and 1+0 (raid 10) was also tested and found to be JUST slightly faster than 1 SSD drive but they had major stability issues (randomly dropping raid is the worst) with all of the raid controllers they tested. Edited May 27, 2018 by J3st3rXI Awards
Evil-Monkey Posted May 28, 2018 Member ID: 221 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 11 Topic Count: 85 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1865 Content Per Day: 0.33 Reputation: 751 Achievement Points: 12313 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17 Birthday: 06/10/1967 Device: iPhone Posted May 28, 2018 I tried the Raid thing years ago and had nothing but issues. My wife hates it when I say its that time again...lol Awards
Lane Posted May 31, 2018 Member ID: 26995 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 2 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 35 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 18 Achievement Points: 302 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/05/18 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 17, 2024 Birthday: 09/26/1967 Device: Windows Author Posted May 31, 2018 Well I have done a 6 drive raid 0 as with SSD there is no reason to nor do it. Also did a raid 1-0 2-3 drive strip and the performance was unreal. I will never raid a mechanical again. SSD all the time. I used to build Storage arrays so that was why I did it on this. Currently it is a single drive. I could image this one and move it to a new RAID with no problems it is just if I want to. Been dreaming of finishing this rig for about 2 tears.
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