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post #181 of 192
2/8/13 at 6:31am
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You constantly say that higher performance is not needed, there is no real world advantage, and that benchmarks don't translate into real world experience.

I basically have always agreed with you on this in relation to simple HTPC's, but the difference is I see a place and a reason and a benefit in certain applications while you throw a blanket covering the whole thing.

What am I missing?
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post #182 of 192
2/8/13 at 11:39pm
Aww you're all mostly not paying attention to this thread anymore but I wanted to brag on my 8x256gb crucial c300 in raid-0 on an lsi 9260.

I bought them on day 1 for 800$/ea.

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Good times!

I run just 3 in Raid-0 now.




Edit: I will be upgrading my system for haswell (or possibly broadwell depending on haswell's clocks/heat/tdp) If I were upgrading today I'd take samsung's reliability and faster small block random read (where most general purpose computing happens) over the vector. Though it looks like a great drive.
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post #183 of 192
2/9/13 at 8:08am
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HOLY COW !!!!!! eek.gif
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post #184 of 192
2/13/13 at 4:32pm
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http://www.newegg.com/Special/ShellShocker.aspx?cm_sp=ShellShocker-_-20-227-915-_-02132013_1


Eggsaver Shellshocker today...

Too bad it's the small one.
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post #185 of 192
3/1/13 at 9:51am
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Originally Posted by mbreslin View Post

Aww you're all mostly not paying attention to this thread anymore but I wanted to brag on my 8x256gb crucial c300 in raid-0 on an lsi 9260.

I bought them on day 1 for 800$/ea.

biggrin.gif

Good times!

I run just 3 in Raid-0 now.




Edit: I will be upgrading my system for haswell (or possibly broadwell depending on haswell's clocks/heat/tdp) If I were upgrading today I'd take samsung's reliability and faster small block random read (where most general purpose computing happens) over the vector. Though it looks like a great drive.

What do you use an 8x 256GB SSD array for ???
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post #186 of 192
3/1/13 at 9:52am
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Originally Posted by mbreslin View Post

Aww you're all mostly not paying attention to this thread anymore but I wanted to brag on my 8x256gb crucial c300 in raid-0 on an lsi 9260.

I bought them on day 1 for 800$/ea.

biggrin.gif

Good times!

I run just 3 in Raid-0 now.




Edit: I will be upgrading my system for haswell (or possibly broadwell depending on haswell's clocks/heat/tdp) If I were upgrading today I'd take samsung's reliability and faster small block random read (where most general purpose computing happens) over the vector. Though it looks like a great drive.

What do you use an 8x 256GB SSD array for ???
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post #187 of 192
4/9/13 at 11:09am
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Originally Posted by AdamK47;34827796 
Bought two more for a total of eight Vertex 4 512GB drives in RAID-0.

8x_512GB_Vertex4.jpg

4TB-SSD-ASSSD.png

Lol.

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Originally Posted by AdamK47;34827831 
Anvil's Storage Utilities:

4TB-SSD-Anvil.png

ATTO:

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post #188 of 192
5/16/13 at 6:36am
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http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/ssd-raid-benchmark,review-32689.html

Really good article comparing Raid0 SSDs to large single drives.

Pretty much sums up what I've experienced personally.

Benchmarks and very demanding tasks get slaughtered with wreck less abandon but real world times aren't much improved.


I'm favoring a 256gb Sammy pro or vector 256 over dual 128's (which I've tested)

I'd prefer the simplicity and nothing more.
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post #189 of 192
5/16/13 at 7:09am
Striping also increases your chances of losing everything - two drives doubles your chances, three triples it, etc. Lose one drive in a stripe set and lose everything.
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post #190 of 192
5/17/13 at 12:45pm
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True. But my OS drive has nothing of value on it.

I'd happily accept the risk for a significant speed increase.

Accept- The speed increase is not significant. For that reason I'd prefer a single larger drive. Nothing at all because of RAID0 fear of reliability- but 100% because it is easier.

I've run tons of RAID0 arrays and never had issues.
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post #191 of 192
5/17/13 at 8:26pm
The end impact for the real world just doesn't pay off (IMHO). I've been using the Vertex 256Gb I picked up last summer, and will be upgrading to the 840. I could go faster to the Vector or a RAID-0, but the benefits to my use in an HTPC are minimal. More than that, while there is 'nothing of worth' in my OS storage, what is of worth is redoing all the activations and software installs. And while I keep an Acronis image of my main partition, the time it would take to reset RAID-0 and re-image is too annoying, and my time is worth money too wink.gif

Right now, I'm very happy with the performance of the Vertex.. at the point you've got a good SSD and 16G+ of RAM for an HTPC front end, anything else is mostly it.. I'm not launching any apps but Media Center, and everything I have is stored either on a NAS on the network, on a 3TB that's local for recorded TV storage. So multi-SSDs in RAID just don't hold a lot of interest for me.

But the Vector is interesting; and is one of the drives I will consider when I rebuild this summer.
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post #192 of 192
5/22/13 at 6:46am
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I agree. A 256GB high end SSD is already so good that the extra access time and RAID controller performance don't translate to serious gains.

A raid controller optimized for SSD might but I don't see those.

PCI express x16 3.0 SSD card is really a faster option due to optimization and lower access time.
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