New Marvel 88SE9182: Also, Raid 0 for 2 SSD and 2 HD??

[HealthNutMD]

Question,

First of all, I picked up the new ASSASSIN G1 motherboard. I'd install it today but I picked the wrong case and just overnighted a Silverstone PJ11 from New Egg so I can assemble this Tuesday.

1) The Gigabye Assassin G1 has the new 88SE9182 chip on it, which is a new SATA 3 chip which I presume fixes the prior Raid 0 issues.

Google:

Feb 18, 2011 ... 1) The SATA 6Gb/s ports (running off the new Marvell 88SE9182 1GB/sec controller Support for SATA RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10 Marvell 88SE9182:

If you Google 88SE9182, you can see lots of talk about this new controller, it is for real....

2) I have two Plextor 128 GB SATA 3 SSD's I was going to put in raid 0. What happens to performance when you increase from 2 to 4, if I bough 4 of these?

3) I have a single WD 2TB Black Caviar Sata 3 drive. Should I get another one and put it is Raid 0 as well? Can I have the Plextor SSD's in raid 0 and also have (2) WD 2TB drives in raid 0 as well? Any recommendations?

4) what do you recommend as a backup solution? I don't mind spending money for a decent backup solution.

Thank-you.

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[HealthNutMD]

1) Just wondering how the performance is affected by using (4) 128 GB SSD in raid 0, vs (2) 128 GB SSD

2) Can you use 2 different raid 0 on the same computer? I was thinking of buying a second WD 2TB drive and making it raid 0 as well. But not sure if you can have a pair of SSD in raid 0 and also a pair of HD in raid 0 from the same controller?

 

[Zap]

I don't mind spending money

I think we've established that. :hmm:

I'll try to tackle your two questions in your second post.

1) The benefits from SSDs are the really low access times, higher transfer rates (except for low end or old drives) and high IOPS. Increasing the number of SSDs will increase all except access times. Access times (with some IOPS) is probably what makes SSDs feel "snappy" to most users, so you probably won't make your system feel much more snappier. IOPS probably matter, but for a normal desktop user an SSD is already so high performance in that metric that it probably doesn't matter. This comes down to high transfer rates. It'll probably help with loading times of more demanding games, plus of course for transferring data to/from the array.

2) Yes. Create one array and add the desired drives to it. Create a second array and add the desired drives to it. You can also (if enough ports exist) have drives that are not even part of any array.

 

[HealthNutMD]

Thank-you so much, that is very helpful!