SSD's with built in RAID.....Is it a worthy PC upgrade?

[MrRiplEy[H]]

pardon me for being skeptical of that test...they tested a 1st gen revo against a 3rd gen agility...and all sata iii on sata 6gb interfaces...nothing on the revo x2 drive using a pci-e interface.

A revodrive x2 is out of the pricerange of the tested drives, that's why x1 small drive is being used most likely. The problem with paper specs are that while revo x2 shows double performance figures in pure bandwith tests it doesn't come close to double performance in real life scenarios. The only people who really benefit from large sequential reads are people who do videoediting or work with huge cad files. Games and OS require a gazillion small reads that can wreak havoc on drive performance.

A good example is Intel drives - they suck on sequential read speeds but when you slap them to a real world use of many small file reads they start to shine.

[Masherbrum]

heya Karaya,
Thanks for the heads up  / Tip


hope you and your Family are doing well, Jay  <S>

TC

Been super busy during our son's Little League season.    So I should be flying more now.   

  on my brother from another mother.

[gyrene81]

A revodrive x2 is out of the pricerange of the tested drives, that's why x1 small drive is being used most likely. The problem with paper specs are that while revo x2 shows double performance figures in pure bandwith tests it doesn't come close to double performance in real life scenarios. The only people who really benefit from large sequential reads are people who do videoediting or work with huge cad files. Games and OS require a gazillion small reads that can wreak havoc on drive performance.

A good example is Intel drives - they suck on sequential read speeds but when you slap them to a real world use of many small file reads they start to shine.

that makes sense, thanks ripley.

[Krusty]

As a fellow new-SSD user I can say you have to look for the right one. All those cheap drives can be slower than standard plattter drives. You have to check the read/write speeds and compare to (say) a high-end velociraptor or something.

If you want cheep but still pretty fast, RAID a few velociraptors together. Just add an extra fan over them for heat.

If you want to go SSD, can't spend a total fortune, the best performance is probably the low-capacity Revo X2s. I've got the 100GB Revo X2. It's smoking fast! I have Aces High installed on it as well as Win7 x64. Film viewer installs with AH default dir, and film playback is fast and smooth. I forgot to move my scratch drive settings to my 1TB SATA drive so at first my video editing was freakishly responsive and fast (it was sweet!).

Win7 x64 boots in 18 seconds from POST screen to being able to click mouse and launch programs.

Down side is it is an investment, and 100GB is okay but you won't want to bog it down. You WILL need a backup drive for the mundane work.

[Masherbrum]

I recently was blessed with a Birthday gift from my 2 Daughters, which they told me to order whatever I wanted PC Component wise and they would pay for it....since I like to build my own computers instead of using prebuilt or brand name PC's........  anyways below is what I picked out that my girls bought for me for my b-day present , so I could assemble it...... Also, I took almost a week trying to figure out which SSD to pick or if I should pick one at all???? and all the reading gave me migraines

I was stuck on some specs & user reviews that kept saying stuff like, although it is a 100 gig HD, you actually end up with like (4) 25 Gig HD that is in RAID 0 or something to that effect......

If I was to get a SSD-HD...... what interface should I get?  SATA II ( 3.0 Gb/s ) , SATA III ( 6.0 Gb/s ), PCI xpress 1 or PCI xpress 4

my first choice I was really leaning toward was this PCIex4 version............  but if I am only able to use 1/4 of the SSD's capacity then I think it is really a waste of money for anything under 200 gigs if it is
set up in a RAID 0 or RAID 0 + 1 type setup.........


my birthday gift computer build specs:

if any of you are using SSD's currently, or have some good solid info regarding how a person should setup an SSD HD ( regular IDE type storage use, or AHCI type, or setup in RAID 0, or setup in RAID 1, etc etc...... )

I would truely appreciate any help or info you could enlighten me to, please

Thank You


TC

Your MB is not on the Tested/Compatability list for Sandforce (RevoDrive, RevoDrivex2).    You have the ASUS M4A89TD.   The ASUS they tested was the M4A79 Deluxe.

http://www.ocztechnology.com/displaypage.php?name=revo_ibis_moboguide

[TequilaChaser]

Your MB is not on the Tested/Compatability list for Sandforce (RevoDrive, RevoDrivex2).    You have the ASUS M4A89TD.   The ASUS they tested was the M4A79 Deluxe.

http://www.ocztechnology.com/displaypage.php?name=revo_ibis_moboguide

Thanks for the heads up, Jay... much appreciated Bro <S>

TC