SSD Raid on SB700
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 4:52 pm
So I have 2 32GB Adata S592 and one OCZ Agility 30GB drives coming in soon. I want to know if putting these in Raid 0 will reach/surpass the bandwidth of the SB700 chipset.
I have a few options in my head for what I want to do. Since I have a Highpoint Rocketraid 2300 (4 port software Raid/PCI-E 1x) my 3 ideas are:
1. Onboard Raid 0 - Only if I will not exceed the limitations of the chipset
2. Use 2300 for Raid 5 - Will it give me similar speeds to Raid 0 but with some security of course?
3. Get another AM2+/AM3 mobo that has a chipset that doesnt bottleneck the SSD in Raid 0. Was looking at a 780a Chipset motherboard as Nvidia Chipsets seem to do amazing on Raid 0 bandwidth
I know that for Raid 5 I should use a hardware RAID card for best performance, but that's not in the budget. And if and when I use Raid 0, I will create a backup of the array consistantly for when it crashes. It will be used as an OS and some games drive.
Trying to figure out the limit on the SB700 southbridge, and how that will slow my total bandwidth of Raid 0. I can probably just pick up a PCI-E 4x card to make sure I have no limitations, but it'd be nice to use what I've got already
I have a few options in my head for what I want to do. Since I have a Highpoint Rocketraid 2300 (4 port software Raid/PCI-E 1x) my 3 ideas are:
1. Onboard Raid 0 - Only if I will not exceed the limitations of the chipset
2. Use 2300 for Raid 5 - Will it give me similar speeds to Raid 0 but with some security of course?
3. Get another AM2+/AM3 mobo that has a chipset that doesnt bottleneck the SSD in Raid 0. Was looking at a 780a Chipset motherboard as Nvidia Chipsets seem to do amazing on Raid 0 bandwidth
I know that for Raid 5 I should use a hardware RAID card for best performance, but that's not in the budget. And if and when I use Raid 0, I will create a backup of the array consistantly for when it crashes. It will be used as an OS and some games drive.
Trying to figure out the limit on the SB700 southbridge, and how that will slow my total bandwidth of Raid 0. I can probably just pick up a PCI-E 4x card to make sure I have no limitations, but it'd be nice to use what I've got already