200 Megabytes/sec No Raid

[Richard Andrewski]

We definitely don't know the longterm effects yet. We're all the guinea pigs in a big experiment right now on SSDs. Wonder how Paul's system is still doing but I think its only been a couple of months.

 

[Gavin Greenwalt]

We're all the guinea pigs in a big experiment right now on SSDs.

Guinea pigs with lightning fast scratch disks. :laugh:

 

[Obin Olson]

it's a joke right? 7sec to boot windows??

1. Buying a G.Skill Falcon 128Gig SSD.... $320

2. 1 X Sata Cable purchase...$2

3. Transferring a 1 gig file in 3 seconds, booting up windows in 7 seconds, not having to worry about your raid-0 array going corrupt, not having to wait for applications to load, etc etc...

PRICELESS.

And this is just one drive. Wait till I stripe 4 of these bad-boys.

 

[Richard Andrewski]

Guinea pigs with lightning fast scratch disks. :laugh:

Where's SATA III when you need it ;-)

 

[Ace]

it's a joke right? 7sec to boot windows??

No joke.

7 Seconds after Bios loading that is. Fresh install though.

This is windows 7. Much snappier and quicker than Vista or its predecessors.

 

[Paul Leeming]

Wonder how Paul's system is still doing but I think its only been a couple of months.

Flawlessly! :thumbsup:

It's all about knowing your technology and setting it up to take advantage of its good points and minimising its bad points. In my situation the bad point was "older" generation SSDs without onboard cache, but the workaround/solution is to use a hardware RAID controller to provide cache to the drives.

Here's the result for my 2x Samsung SLC based SSDs on the hardware RAID controller, using 128k stripe RAID0:

Fast enough I'd say :rofl:

And yes, Windows bootup and application opening are FAST!!! I'm using Windows 7 RC1 x64 and it rocks!

Here's another benchmark I ran for Dan Hudgins using his program to test throughput for writing realtime RAW files:

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=31568

Again, with the right hardware (at a reasonable price too) anything is possible, if you know what you're doing.... :biggrin:

HTH

Paul

 

[Peter Plevritis]

I'm sure this must have been posted here at some point but if you haven't seen it well it's worth a look. If this is old news please pardon the interruption.

A bunch of SSDs in a RAID.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs