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[stormrosson]

OK then ,I started this thread for our esteemed Mikey Oreilly, who has diligently been putting together an all ssd storage project. I think MO's concept, and a rather good one it seems, was/is to assemble a raid array with a nice controller and some relatively cheap ssd's. The hardware in use is 1 Adaptec 5405 sata/sas raid controller and 4 Patriot 30 GB ssd's. The Adaptec retails in the neiborhood of 325-350$ US, the ssd's can be had at Newegg for 99$ US per drive. MO has been diligently researching and accruing the necessary know how needed to "align and specify partition offset " and select the optimal raid stripe size. These parameters are extremely important in order to optimize the ssd for best performance with the individual windows OS. I will now hang this thread up and hope that soon we will be rewarded with some screenies and info, this is a tedious and time consuming process so this thread will probably stretch out over time, however ssd's are the cutting edge and future of data storage so the knowledge gained here will be invaluable to any of us tech-heads. With that I shall turn this over to MOreilly (applause) ....it's all your's MO come on down........

[Nvyseal]

Cool! you really went and did it MO, congrats! lets see some pics and give us the secrets of your findings

[stormrosson]

Mr Oreilly and his immaculate concept....rock'n roll MO, let's get them screenies comin

Edited by stormrosson, 05 February 2009 - 04:22 PM.

[m.oreilly]

i'm putting win7 x64 back on atm, and will post some benches. i spent all day yesterday installing and reinstalling on different partition alignments to see what's what. let's just say xp, once aligned, really screams...

[stormrosson]

MO if u can before u reinstall could u get some screenies in XP 64 ? atto, hdtune, hdtach u know the usual benchies I know it's a lot to ask but a lesson/explanation of partition alignment would be excellent too .(crap appears I'm too late)

Edited by stormrosson, 05 February 2009 - 04:27 PM.

[m.oreilly]

weird. not for the timid lol. i dunno if it is the controller or the drives or firmware of either, but i am now, with a 256 offset and 256 stripe (raid0) getting comparable results in win7x64 as i was in xpx64:




pretty snappy feeling too

(check out the response time, for 4 drives...)

this is with the adaptec 5405 hardware controller and 4x patriot warp v2 ssd, write and read caching enabled.

[stormrosson]

nice job buddy , those r great numbers looks like the project is shaping up nicely

[Nvyseal]

Good to see you have your STD's in great order!

[m.oreilly]

Nvyseal, on Feb 5 2009, 02:47 PM, said:

Good to see you have your STD's in great order!

[hog]

I don't know/understand much about storage and that kind of stuff, but basically you're telling me this reads data at a 500+ MB/s?? Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems rather huge!

[stormrosson]

@ Hog, that is exactly what the numbers mean, and yes u are correct sir ,that is freakin blazing fast @ MO...........std's...

Edited by stormrosson, 05 February 2009 - 11:28 PM.

[m.oreilly]

no pics (real pretty they are though) i was too excited to get them mounted as i knew i had hours of testing ahead. for your onboard, i'd get the vertex drives...

edit: i'll get pics of the installed drives up soon. i had to improvise a bit (didn't want to reuse use my cheap, easily breakable backplanes)...

[m.oreilly]

ok...wow. with superfetch and indexing off, along w/pagefile and windows search; win7 is super fast on ssd. night and day. now everything just bursts up. cool...

[stormrosson]

excellent MO...the final piece of the puzzle in place, now it would be a nice time if u had 1 of my quad drive 2.5" cages that I fabbed up huh? ....ps I have a spare one if u need it...all aluminum screwless mounting...pretty nice buddy .

Edited by stormrosson, 06 February 2009 - 03:43 PM.