 OctaveanPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-31
New York, NY
kudos:1 | reply to Octavean
Re: SSD Raid 0 Array 4x240GB Setup Test Run Here is a link to one of my older threads:
»SSD Raid 0 Array 4x60GB Setup Test Run
said by Mike:which bios are you running?
I'll have to check, not sure which BIOS version the motherboard is running.
said by Chrno:You don't have enough SATA 3 ports and those 2 Vertex Plus drives are surely holding your throughput back. I think it's possible to reach similar speeds with the m4 and 330 in raid 0 alone.
I submit that only one could be a problem at any given time not both.
I could have used just the 330 and the M4 but that wouldn't have amounted to a quasi 1TB SSD RAID 0 array. Rather it would have been half the capacity. I already had some idea of what the performance would have been like from prior experience. The benchmarks I have seen from two SATA 6G SSD units (Corsair Force Series 3 I believe) in a RAID 0 array were still hitting similar (max) performance levels on the sequential reads as the 4x60 array. |
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 KrisnatharokCaveat EmptorPremium
join:2009-02-11
Earth Orbit
kudos:7 | what is the max throughput for the SATA controller overall on the motherboard? Each port can theoretically do 6.0 Gbps, but how much total can the mobo support?
Cool project--makes me tempted to send my next SSD to you first so we could do a 4x current gen SSD test for the lols.
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OctaveanPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-31
New York, NY
kudos:1
1 edit | The Asus P9X79 Deluxe LGA2011 / X79 motherboard has the following ports:
2 x SATA 6.0 Gb/s (Intel X79)
4 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s (Intel X79)
2 x SATA 6.0 Gb/s (Marvell 9128)
2 x Power eSATA 6.0 Gb/s (ASMedia ASM1061)
In this case I am only using the 4 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s (Intel X79) ports. Initially I thought that only the SATA 3.0 ports would be configurable in a RAID array but during setup I came to realize that all 6 of the Intel ports were configurable in the array.
ASUS P9X79 DELUXE LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS $379.99
ASUS P9X79 Deluxe Intel LGA 2011 Review
Its my understanding that Haswell will have motherboards with 6 Intel SATA 6G ports off the Z87 chipset as well as some of the other lower-end Intel chipsets for Haswell. Possibly there will be TRIM support in a RAID 0 array as well. The X79 chipset has yet to receive that support but presumably its forthcoming.
said by Mike:which bios are you running?
UEFI BIOS version 1103
There have been five UEFI / BIOS releases for the Asus P9X79 Deluxe since 1103:
(2012.12.07) BIOS 3203
(2012.10.16) BIOS 3009
(2012.08.14) BIOS 2104
(2012.07.30) BIOS 2002
(2012.06.13) BIOS 1203 |
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 MikePremium,Mod
join:2000-09-17
Pittsburgh, PA
kudos:1 | I was going to mention with asus the lower #'d bios usually suck eggs.
Maybe your stability problems can be fixed by 3203 |
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OctaveanPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-31
New York, NY
kudos:1 | Thanks Mike. You very well may be right.
Since I have purchased the new 500GB Samsung 840 SSD I've been eager to test it out which is another reason I want to break the quasi 1TB SSD RAID 0 array. I'd also like to retest the individual SSD units that make up the array. |
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