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: 0.02 Reputation: 18 Achievement Points: 302 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/05/18 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 27, 2020 Birthday: 09/26/1967 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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 Device: Windows Share 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobMc Posted May 26, 2018 Member ID: 25355 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 31 Topic Count: 257 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 5785 Content Per Day: 2.17 Reputation: 9113 Achievement Points: 63247 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 132 Joined: 12/14/16 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 10 Birthday: 01/05/1954 Device: Windows Share Posted May 26, 2018 If you are both trying to get your post counts up good job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaptCrunch Posted May 27, 2018 Member ID: 389 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 44 Topic Count: 290 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 4407 Content Per Day: 0.83 Reputation: 3558 Achievement Points: 36065 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 38 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Yesterday at 02:18 AM Birthday: 01/01/1970 Device: Android Share Posted May 27, 2018 in command prompt type " msinfo32 " without quotes will tell what version of OS are running now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
J3st3r Posted May 27, 2018 Member ID: 2162 Group: ++ COD4 Admin Followers: 153 Topic Count: 152 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 5080 Content Per Day: 1.06 Reputation: 5008 Achievement Points: 44606 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 22 Joined: 01/25/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: 8 hours ago Birthday: 02/26/1972 Device: Windows Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Evil-Monkey Posted May 28, 2018 Member ID: 221 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 11 Topic Count: 85 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1864 Content Per Day: 0.35 Reputation: 745 Achievement Points: 12302 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 17, 2023 Birthday: 06/10/1967 Device: Windows Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... 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: 0.02 Reputation: 18 Achievement Points: 302 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/05/18 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 27, 2020 Birthday: 09/26/1967 Author Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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