I'm trying to see if this sounds crazy or if it is actually reasonable, please forgive my stupid questions because I'm still using Phenom II X4 and OCZ Vertex 2 at home so I'm a bit obsolete to begin with.
Recently I got a project that I need a build to test some NVMe SSD prior to deployment. This will be a machine that just run a write once, read for 10 minutes test throughout the entire SSD capacity to screen out the bad apples. I need as many PCIe 3.0 4x interface as I can so that means the best choice I can get would likely be an Asrock Z170 board with 4 PCIe3.0 slots with PCIe 4x to M.2 adapters, and 3 M.2 slots to support 7 M.2 SSDs.
To take advantage of all that I'd likely need a Skylake CPU (for the DMI 3.0 and Z170's PCIe 3.0), and the cheapest one would be a celeron. However I'm not sure if it would be good enough to read 7 M.2 drive at full speed (say around 2GB/S each) if we are just discarding the data anyways, or should I use something with quad core and hyper threading so it would work ok for 7 SSD read.
Any suggestion?
Recently I got a project that I need a build to test some NVMe SSD prior to deployment. This will be a machine that just run a write once, read for 10 minutes test throughout the entire SSD capacity to screen out the bad apples. I need as many PCIe 3.0 4x interface as I can so that means the best choice I can get would likely be an Asrock Z170 board with 4 PCIe3.0 slots with PCIe 4x to M.2 adapters, and 3 M.2 slots to support 7 M.2 SSDs.
To take advantage of all that I'd likely need a Skylake CPU (for the DMI 3.0 and Z170's PCIe 3.0), and the cheapest one would be a celeron. However I'm not sure if it would be good enough to read 7 M.2 drive at full speed (say around 2GB/S each) if we are just discarding the data anyways, or should I use something with quad core and hyper threading so it would work ok for 7 SSD read.
Any suggestion?
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