Originally posted by: doclucas
or what about Super Talent RAIDDrive which suppose to give double the speed of the Z-DRIVEs: http://www.engadget.com/2009/0...month-to-the-rich-and/
shoudl be available next month only, no reviews yet, only claimed specs...
Originally posted by: ScorcherDarkly
5) Other
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com...ainstream-power-users/
The 1 TB model. You said money was no object, right? =)
Originally posted by: doclucas
If money wasn't an issue, which SSD drive would you buy today and why?
1) Intel X25-M G2 160GB
2) Intel X25-E 64GB
3) PhotoFast G-Monster V5 256GB
4) OCZ Vertex 256GB
5) Other (please specify)
Originally posted by: themusgrat
The problem with the PCI drives is that you likely won't be able to boot from them. So best case, if money was TRULY no object, I'd have a 2 Intel 160gb SSD G2s in RAID 1 as my bootup drive, and then grab some cheap $100 1TB media drive as a holdover till the new PCI-E Terabyte drives start coming out, then put 2 of those in RAID 0 for your games/media. It's a shame there's no boards out with single GPU slots, and like 5 PCI-E slots, else you could RAID 5 like 4-5 of the new 1TB drives, which all have RAID internally, but I'm guessing no PCI-E controller has room for that much bandwidth. But that's the best possible scenario, as far as storage is concerned. I wouldn't be surprised to see 1GB real-world transfer speeds with the 1TBs in RAID 0.
Originally posted by: doclucas
Originally posted by: themusgrat
The problem with the PCI drives is that you likely won't be able to boot from them. So best case, if money was TRULY no object, I'd have a 2 Intel 160gb SSD G2s in RAID 1 as my bootup drive, and then grab some cheap $100 1TB media drive as a holdover till the new PCI-E Terabyte drives start coming out, then put 2 of those in RAID 0 for your games/media. It's a shame there's no boards out with single GPU slots, and like 5 PCI-E slots, else you could RAID 5 like 4-5 of the new 1TB drives, which all have RAID internally, but I'm guessing no PCI-E controller has room for that much bandwidth. But that's the best possible scenario, as far as storage is concerned. I wouldn't be surprised to see 1GB real-world transfer speeds with the 1TBs in RAID 0.
OCZ Z-DRIVE PCI-E is bootable and so will be Super Talent's RAIDDrive PCI-E and any other PCI-E SSD drive that I heard of except for Fusion-IO.
Would this fact change any of your plans?
Originally posted by: themusgrat
Originally posted by: doclucas
Originally posted by: themusgrat
The problem with the PCI drives is that you likely won't be able to boot from them. So best case, if money was TRULY no object, I'd have a 2 Intel 160gb SSD G2s in RAID 1 as my bootup drive, and then grab some cheap $100 1TB media drive as a holdover till the new PCI-E Terabyte drives start coming out, then put 2 of those in RAID 0 for your games/media. It's a shame there's no boards out with single GPU slots, and like 5 PCI-E slots, else you could RAID 5 like 4-5 of the new 1TB drives, which all have RAID internally, but I'm guessing no PCI-E controller has room for that much bandwidth. But that's the best possible scenario, as far as storage is concerned. I wouldn't be surprised to see 1GB real-world transfer speeds with the 1TBs in RAID 0.
OCZ Z-DRIVE PCI-E is bootable and so will be Super Talent's RAIDDrive PCI-E and any other PCI-E SSD drive that I heard of except for Fusion-IO.
Would this fact change any of your plans?
Yes. Well, I might be showing my motherboard newbness here, but I didn't think all motherboards would boot from PCI-X, though I may be mistaken. I know mine doesn't, but it's an oldie. So I'd check on that first. But if it will boot for sure, I'd get 2 of the terabyte drives and put them in RAID 0. Earlier I had said I'd put the OS drives in RAID 1, that was a mistake, I meant RAID 0. With 2 drives and a clear choice between performance and reliability, definitely go for performance with SSDs. They don't have mechanical failures, so the only problems, at least with the 1TB drives, will be with their internal RAID controllers, and RAID 1 won't stop anything bad from happening. Now I'm sure that it's worth seeing the ramifications of putting 2 RAID drives into RAID, but I doubt that with SSDs, you'd see anything out of the ordinary, though someone with a good knowledge of RAID controllers would be able to say with more certainty.
But ya, if those will boot for you, then 2 TB of double RAIDed SSD is about the best you'll find. Even the higher end PCI-X solutions with huge thoroughputs almost never have a 2 terabyte capacity, so this should be the best, in terms of useability, performance, and capacity. And it should be rather future proof as well, because I doubt that SSDs will get very much faster, they'll mostly only get cheaper and have more storage space, because the flash market has already had years to mature, so at this point, you likely won't see any major changes in flash technology, at least at comparable pricepoints, that would make you want to upgrade for the next 2-3 years, and by then, since we're talking about a PC with unlimited funding, you'll want to upgrade the whole PC because of 8 core, USB 3, etc.
Originally posted by: doclucas
Originally posted by: themusgrat
....
Here's some cool info for you to read: http://www.tweaktown.com/artic...aid_0_win_7/index.html
Any thoughts?
LoL @ The big S Raid...money wasn't an issue, but I was talking about storage for home usage....10-20TB wouldn't be exactly for home use...Originally posted by: jimhsu
5. A RamSan-6200. http://www.ramsan.com/products/ramsan-6200.htm
You said money wasn't an issue, right?
For practical purposes though, the intel X-25M in RAID (2x80GB, etc).
Originally posted by: doclucas
Originally posted by: themusgrat
The problem with the PCI drives is that you likely won't be able to boot from them. So best case, if money was TRULY no object, I'd have a 2 Intel 160gb SSD G2s in RAID 1 as my bootup drive, and then grab some cheap $100 1TB media drive as a holdover till the new PCI-E Terabyte drives start coming out, then put 2 of those in RAID 0 for your games/media. It's a shame there's no boards out with single GPU slots, and like 5 PCI-E slots, else you could RAID 5 like 4-5 of the new 1TB drives, which all have RAID internally, but I'm guessing no PCI-E controller has room for that much bandwidth. But that's the best possible scenario, as far as storage is concerned. I wouldn't be surprised to see 1GB real-world transfer speeds with the 1TBs in RAID 0.
OCZ Z-DRIVE PCI-E is bootable and so will be Super Talent's RAIDDrive PCI-E and any other PCI-E SSD drive that I heard of except for Fusion-IO.
Would this fact change any of your plans?
Originally posted by: Viper GTS
Fastest SSD I've used to date is from Pliant:
http://www.plianttechnology.com/products.php
We have 3 of the 300 GB 3.5" models on our test bench, they are FAST.
$30 a gig.
Viper GTS