And my Saturday insanity bleeds into Sunday night heh.
So if I were to get 4 of those bad boys at and say a 3ware 9650SE-4LPML (totalling about 1200 bux), would you think I'd get a decent 400-500MB/s Skiman? That's basically the same price for banging together 4 x 150GB velociraptors, and not getting a raid card.
This would be more of a hobby, than a serious attempt at breaking the land speed record. I know what can be done with drives in the EXTREEM end of the spectrum, I'm trying to get something that will be useful for the next 3 or so years until SATA 3 pans out properly.
I can't see a reason why I couldn't get it, other than being rediculous in scope and absurd in price but meh.
Anyone have any expereience with 3ware drives?
--Edit--Seems as though 3ware raid cards don't work well with SSD's oh well I got time.
From OCZ forums...
Both Areca and Adaptec have "noticed" SSDs. The extremely high end Areca ARC-1231ML has the best results with SSDs, showing low latency and high throughput. The Adaptec cards show high throughput but add a little latency. Since the Adaptec cards are significantly cheaper then this may simply be a side effect of not spending massive sums of money on the RAID card. However it's possible Adaptec could eliminate this with a firmware update.
Anyone using a RAID card with SSDs is as D111 has said using a card that is specifically and carefully designed to extract the best performance from mechanical drives as possible. If you like you can call them mechanical drive specialists. While motherboard connections are nowhere near as advanced. As a result the current crop of RAID cards may offer nothing over a simple motherboard solution (besides bandwidth and processing power), and may in fact hamper things.
At least one RAID card manufacturer has produced a card that is at least configured for SSDs. We don't know who it is yet since it's only today that OCZ have shown this new Z Drive at CEBIT. It's not clear if it's a card specifically produced to power SSDs. Likely it's an existing RAID card layout with some features that are of no value cut off.... or it's simply an off the shelf card. I suspect it's not an Adaptec since it doesn't have the holey PCI bracket slot cover thing. Areca have said they are working with SSD manufacturers, perhaps this is what they mean and it's an Areca.
Turns out the 9650 only supports the million dollar SSD's from intel, which defeats the purpose.
The Adaptec 2405, retails for 300$ or so, seems to be the only "reasonable" option right now. Save 100$ I guess a little research saves money heh. I've read about very strong results with Areca controllers as well (ARC-1210 is in the same price range).
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