100GB OCZ Vertex LE 2X RAID-0 ICH10R!!

[drizek]

Wouldn't it be cheaper to just get 40GB of ram and just use a ramdisk?

I crystalmarked my ramdisk and I had double Rubycons score.

Edit: i meant a software-based ramdisk using system memory.

 

[HendrixFan]

Wouldn't it be cheaper to just get 40GB of ram and just use a ramdisk?

I crystalmarked my ramdisk and I had double Rubycons score.

Edit: i meant a software-based ramdisk using system memory.

Her array is almost 500GB. Price out 500GB of RAM (or show me a board that supports 500GB of RAM) and you will find your answer.

 

[Engineer]

"Yatapdong barefoot" means Indilinx based.

I actually know that as I frequent the OCZ forums often. Place a jumper on the OCZ drives and they show up as a slave Yatapdong barefoot flashing only drive (no storage that I know of). I was being somewhat sarcastic but pics would be nice! 😛

The cache is quite fast on that Areca card. 😉

That's a good point especially on small size benchmarks. 2GB of cache...wow! 😱

 

[drizek]

Her array is almost 500GB. Price out 500GB of RAM (or show me a board that supports 500GB of RAM) and you will find your answer.

but she's only using 40GB.

I guess it depens on whether she bought 500GB for storage or just to get the RAID-like speed increase.

 

[RaistlinZ]

but she's only using 40GB.

I guess it depens on whether she bought 500GB for storage or just to get the RAID-like speed increase.

Maybe she just did it for e-vag purposes. 🙂

 

[Rubycon]

The cache is quite fast on that Areca card. 😉

Actually if I pick a smaller size the scores go up considerably. The cache can do close to 2GB/S. I was supposed to have 4GB modules for this card but they got lost in transit. OT: DHL sucks. That is all I have to say about that.

The array can read/write 1000MB/S sustained to fill/empty the entire array.

It's done for speed. The pcbs are gskill falcon parts with garbage collection firmware that works with the Areca card. (both firmwares are beta form for testing)

I am looking at an upcoming PCI-E 2.0 16X host that's SAS6Gbps based for striping dual ported SAS SLC devices (1TB each - total of 16). That will fly. Don't ask what that costs.

Ramdisks are of no use because I cannot boot off them and the data is too volatile. A motherboard that holds more ram would certainly be welcome though. We need boards that support 512GB per CPU socket. 256GB per socket would be OK with a four socket board, however.

 

[Adul]

Actually if I pick a smaller size the scores go up considerably. The cache can do close to 2GB/S. I was supposed to have 4GB modules for this card but they got lost in transit. OT: DHL sucks. That is all I have to say about that.

The array can read/write 1000MB/S sustained to fill/empty the entire array.

It's done for speed. The pcbs are gskill falcon parts with garbage collection firmware that works with the Areca card. (both firmwares are beta form for testing)

I am looking at an upcoming PCI-E 2.0 16X host that's SAS6Gbps based for striping dual ported SAS SLC devices (1TB each - total of 16). That will fly. Don't ask what that costs.

Ramdisks are of no use because I cannot boot off them and the data is too volatile. A motherboard that holds more ram would certainly be welcome though. We need boards that support 512GB per CPU socket. 256GB per socket would be OK with a four socket board, however.

😱:thumbsup::thumbsup:

just what the heck are you using this machine for.

 

[Rubycon]

😱:thumbsup::thumbsup:

just what the heck are you using this machine for.

Multiple tapped filtering.

Oh and chess. 😉

 

[Saga]

Seems I need to do some tweaking. I posted the following in the SSD Benchmark thread on 3/5/10:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=301841&page=3

 

[Rubycon]

Caching is screwing with all these programs!
When the test runs in the cache (crystal) gets almost 10,000 writes sequential! I about spat my tea when I saw that. 😱

 

[OCGuy]

Holy crap nice setup....just need a couple of GTX480s in there in a couple weeks 🙂

BTW, SSDs + Win7 are the best upgrade in town right now, even not in RAID. I love my G2 X-25m.

 

[sethk]

I agree with the cache caveat to benchmarks - people need to remember to turn caching off, they cause benchmark results to be inconsistent and not indicative of actual drive performance.

Rubycon:
Is that GEM backplane a SuperMicro thing? Any advantages to using a SAS backplane over a 4x SATA fanout cable? I would love to see pics of your system, since I've been planning a high speed storage sub-system for my next PC build for a long time now, and all the variables make me dizzy.

 

[Rubycon]

Rubycon:
Is that GEM backplane a SuperMicro thing? Any advantages to using a SAS backplane over a 4x SATA fanout cable? I would love to see pics of your system, since I've been planning a high speed storage sub-system for my next PC build for a long time now, and all the variables make me dizzy.

Yes it is. It's a part called a mobile rack. In just a single 5.25" space you can have four 2.5" SATA/SAS disks. A single SAS cable connects to the host with a mini-SAS connector. You can also use a SAS to fanout (4XSATA lines) to connect directly to the motherboard SATA controller. Easy as pie.

I'll get some pics uploaded as I am taking things apart and moving things around again.

 

[aigomorla]

Thanks!! Yes..I thtink it is fine based on what I have read on some other forums...I will be staying under 1.5v....However...I have the itch to go 1.55-1.6..and get a suicide shot at 5.0Ghz!!

-m

and who told you this?

id like to know.

The max safe point for any gulftown which is 32nm would be no more then 1.4v if you want the cpu to last longer then 6 months.

Water does not fight electron migration, which is what ends up killing the cpu. The memory controller in gulftown is not as durable as a D0 i7.

The values you gave are for a D0 i7.

And i probably have the longest gulftown testing time out of anyone on this forum (including anand), unless you directly work for intel RnD.

Ive been playing with gulftown since A0 stepping, and my current processor is a 980X which i keep below 1.4v

If you want to hammer a gulftown you do it on a B0... not a B1 which your 980X is stepped off.

 

[Rubycon]

LOL you keep a CPU six months?
That's like going a month without taking a shower... D:

Oh wait they say that nerds...

😱

That high of a voltage sounds risky but RETAIL parts are lower leakage than early ES steppings and "deal" with 1.4V fine.

 

[aigomorla]

LOL you keep a CPU six months?
That's like going a month without taking a shower... D:

Oh wait they say that nerds...

😱

That high of a voltage sounds risky but RETAIL parts are lower leakage than early ES steppings and "deal" with 1.4V fine.

he's pushing close to 1.5V... he's at 1.456.... ive killed an A0 gulfy @ 1.45.

And when have u seen me keep a cpu longer then 3 months even. 😛

And because its less leaky... it cant handle stress better then a leaky cpu could.

And OP my H2O system is probably greater then yours, yet im still trying to keep below 1.4V.

That should tell you where the safe mark is. 🙂

 

[Rubycon]

And because its less leaky... it cant handle stress better then a leaky cpu could.

IIRC the leaky ones NEED the higher voltage to reach the clocks the less leaky ones do. So while you have a CPU that loves the volts (keeps going higher with volts without the lower "brick wall" of the retails) its demise is often reached suddenly without warning. Usually the system gets a STOP/Kernal panic etc. and never posts again.

Then there's this...

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=252843

 

[JSt0rm]

remind me never to buy used cpu's from you guys

 

[Rubycon]

remind me never to buy used cpu's from you guys

I have to turn them back in one I'm done.

Never killed a CPU and I've done some "bad" things to them.
Killed plenty of boards though!

 

[aigomorla]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=252843

WAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA...

"The issue is that I had a decent cpu to bench with and now I have a dead one - that's the issue as for me -

The rest I'm leaving it to Intel to figure it our OR to someone of you who wants to "experiment".... "


God dayam i hipro cracks me up.

remind me never to buy used cpu's from you guys

Well, 2/3rds of the cpu and overclocking forum would totally not mind getting a cpu off me.

Im known for having cherry cpu's.

 

[Rubycon]

Im known for having cherry cpu's.

Yes but whipped cream is a terrible TIM! 😛

 

[Rubycon]

Four Intel X25M 160G2s on the Areca 1680ix-24 host. Pretty much sizzling performance for just four drives! 😱

Does anyone know what the "BAD" part is on the left?