So I just wiped my hard drives in my main rig (on my mods rigs), and put my 3 x Samsung HD322GJ drives together in RAID 0. Did a 128k stripe size and shrunk the volume from 960GB (320 x 3) to 300GB total (that's 100GB on each drive). Loaded up Win7 Pro 64-bit as usual, and did a quick HD Tune test. Aside from the 10ms access time, I think this very likely bests any single SSD config I've seen out there so far! It's also cheaper than a single SSD, especially one with 300GB!
 

 
Everything is noticeably faster, hell... even the damn WEI gave me a 6.5 for HDD transfer instead of the usual 5.9

NICE, making me want to go out and buy a few cheap HDD's.

Once I get my Corsair 128BG Force GT setup I'd be happy to bench it for comparison.  I'm waiting on the motherboard atm.

here's 3 first gen. ocz vertex ssd in raid 0

what are you talking about ssd's are great. that 10.2 acess time is not that great, however for a bunch of mech hdd's the reads are not bad at all in sata 2. still comes nowhere close to ssd performance. I have sata 3 benches i can post, but the sata 2 benchs i have no pics of. 2 120gb corsair force gt ssd's in raid 0 on a sata 2 ports does 560mbps reads. with 0.1ms access time.

I'd rather wait for them to get bigger/cheaper and replace magnetic drives alltogether is basically what im getting at

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here's 3 first gen. ocz vertex ssd in raid 0

SSD in raid vs Hdd in raid... 
 
 

direraptor22

The point is, my HDDs in RAID can beat a single SSD at transfer speeds. Of course you're gonna have better access times though...

Also @ Little Sister, from my experience and reviews, these Samsung Spinpoint drives prove to be quite reliable. They run cool and quiet despite how fast they are. Mine are a bit over a year old now and are still dead quiet and run below 30C even during usage. They show no signs of imminent failure.

of course those drives in raid 0 will beat a single ssd on a sata 2 controller. sata 3 a different story. point with mech failure is that they will fail at some point and time and are highly likely to fail due to moving parts.
 
on another note those are great reads for your raid config. and inexpensive.
 
BTW- HDTune is the crappiest hdd bench you can run. others are mych better and you will find your reads ect. to be higher with them. however you need to check to see what the manufacture used to bench there drives with to really see if there performing properly.
 
 
off subject, but heres 2 ssds on a sata 3 controller benched with hdtune. my reads are on par when using ATTO which is what corsair uses to bench there ssd's.
 
corsair force gt 120gb in raid 0 on sata 3
 

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direraptor22

The point is, my HDDs in RAID can beat a single SSD at transfer speeds. Of course you're gonna have better access times though...

Also @ Little Sister, from my experience and reviews, these Samsung Spinpoint drives prove to be quite reliable. They run cool and quiet despite how fast they are. Mine are a bit over a year old now and are still dead quiet and run below 30C even during usage. They show no signs of imminent failure.

of course those drives in raid 0 will beat a single ssd on a sata 2 controller. sata 3 a different story. point with mech failure is that they will fail at some point and time and are highly likely to fail due to moving parts.

on another note those are great reads for your raid config. and inexpensive.

BTW- HDTune is the crappiest hdd bench you can run. others are mych better and you will find your reads ect. to be higher with them. however you need to check to see what the manufacture used to bench there drives with to really see if there performing properly.


off subject, but heres 2 ssds on a sata 3 controller benched with hdtune. my reads are on par when using ATTO which is what corsair uses to bench there ssd's.

corsair force gt 120gb in raid 0 on sata 3

I already have two of the Western Digital VelociRaptor WD1500HLHX 150GB 10000 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s, I have been thinking about grabbing four more and raid 0 them. Wondering how these would stand up against some ssd's anybody have 3-4 of them that could post some results?

MajestacaL

I already have two of the Western Digital VelociRaptor WD1500HLHX 150GB 10000 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s, I have been thinking about grabbing four more and raid 0 them. Wondering how these would stand up against some ssd's anybody have 3-4 of them that could post some results?

 
I heard if you go past around 4 drives in RAID usually the onboard RAID controller tends to get a bit erratic (fluctuating read/write speeds, etc) and that's when you wanna start looking for a dedicated RAID card.

chrisdglong

The access times are what beats you out with a few of those HDD's in raid. You do know that the access time is the main reason for getting an SSD? Your HDD's will never reach the access times of an SSD. This is because an SSD is a SOLID state drive. Solid state meaning it does not have any moving parts.

 
Please refer to the first paragraph in post #14...

donta1979

Your missing the point of the thread... hey how did you end up with 2x GTX 580 3gb cards, new cpu, mobo and ssd's didn't you ask the community to donate hardware for your sons rig because you could not buy it?

 
Kinda harsh and uncalled for... don't you think?

chrisdglong

I don't see the point then... So what if it writes faster? I don't even have a DVD drive anymore and you would have to have another set of drives that read/write at the same speed to run backups faster... What do you really use that speed for anyway? Downloading games are limited to the DL speed of the internet... 

 
1. The same reason why everybody posts up their specs, to SHOW IT OFF regardless how crappy or pwnsauce it is... and
2. I've noticed faster boot to Windows speeds and smoother gameplay... as opposed to a single HDD.
 
Problem?

Point here is the mech hdds x3 in raid 0 fetch faster read/writes then a single ssd on the same sata 2 port.
IMO thats awesome.
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