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« on: February 11, 2009, 10:23:38 AM » |
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2x 4gb DDR3 1600 hz OCZ
1 x Dell Perc 6/i
4 x Samsung 2TB (raid 5)
1 x WD VelociRaptor WD3000HLFS
Asus 5870 1gb PCI-E
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« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2009, 01:59:26 PM » |
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Says £115 ?
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jason
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« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2009, 03:26:02 PM » |
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Google 64GB SLC (not MLC), they are in the £400's
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1 x Dell Perc 6/i
4 x Samsung 2TB (raid 5)
1 x WD VelociRaptor WD3000HLFS
Asus 5870 1gb PCI-E
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Critters
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« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2009, 04:42:10 PM » |
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Well they sold out, and re-priced it at 140 just before they did, so prob not a miss-price. They ran low on the 32gig ones also but then re-stocked to 50+ but kept the price at 80, guess they are just bulk buying.
I found a review where they came close to the mtron pro (which is 500+ quid) so they look pretty good.
I was in the market for some SSD goodness and was holding out for the OCZ Vertex as it has cache which solves the stutter you get when writing and reading at the same time, a problem that has plagued all of the cheap (all relative of course) SSDs.
I ordered 3 at 2am last night at 99+vat each, Alex has ordered 2 and Paul has 1. Good find Jason, I would have forked out almost as much on a single 120gig drive and instead have over 190gig and can raid0 them to preform even better. Cheers.
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jason
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« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2009, 05:00:56 PM » |
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excellent.
It'd be interesting to see how your three rigs bench - both against each other & vs my raptor.
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2x 4gb DDR3 1600 hz OCZ
1 x Dell Perc 6/i
4 x Samsung 2TB (raid 5)
1 x WD VelociRaptor WD3000HLFS
Asus 5870 1gb PCI-E
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Critters
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« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2009, 05:38:55 PM » |
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Well I should get around 270 to 300MB/sec transfer and bursts of around 460MB/sec I currently run 2 Raptors in Raid0 and get 126MB/sec average transfer rate and bursts of 102. The access time is also 8.1ms which is 27x more than the 0.3 I should get with the SSDs Not expecting this to make much difference in game or level loads but should improve boot time and application launching. Will also be quiet  Do you have any HD Tune results for your rig yet? If not... why not?! Here is mine for my 2 Raptors in Raid 0  And my Dell laptop HDD  |
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jason
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« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2009, 08:20:06 AM » |
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Ok, here are my benches. I ran both the 64k test (default) and the 8mb test (which I feel represents a more accurate real usage - given that all files on the RAID are over 600mb).
So, 64k results first:Raptor Perc 6/i And the 8mb results:Raptor
Perc 6/i I was quite disappointed by the PERC's 64k results, but thinking about it, it is not designed to throw about small files, and a larger file test does show it's intended usage results. Quite happy with that J |
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1 x Dell Perc 6/i
4 x Samsung 2TB (raid 5)
1 x WD VelociRaptor WD3000HLFS
Asus 5870 1gb PCI-E
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Critters
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« Reply #7 on: February 13, 2009, 01:14:40 PM » |
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6 in stock, £229.99 inc vat So I saved 114 per drive, 344 total |
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« Reply #8 on: February 13, 2009, 02:08:34 PM » |
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Just tested one of the Samsung SSDs, check out that access time, and with 2 of them it should almost perfectly double the speed READ  WRITE  |
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« Reply #9 on: February 13, 2009, 04:20:43 PM » |
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that's pretty nice.
What's it like on the 8mb size - should be faster.
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4 x Samsung 2TB (raid 5)
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Asus 5870 1gb PCI-E
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Critters
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« Reply #10 on: February 13, 2009, 04:29:09 PM » |
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How do you get it to do 8meg?
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« Reply #11 on: February 13, 2009, 04:35:30 PM » |
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settings (cogs) and then change it.
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1 x Dell Perc 6/i
4 x Samsung 2TB (raid 5)
1 x WD VelociRaptor WD3000HLFS
Asus 5870 1gb PCI-E
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« Reply #12 on: February 14, 2009, 12:16:04 AM » |
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We are thinking that bench on a single drive in the work DELL is a fluke. The drive is rated at a max of 120 read and testing on Sencerds rig gets 120, 240 and 370 for 1,2 and 3 drives in raid 0.
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« Reply #13 on: February 14, 2009, 06:41:31 AM » |
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was the drive empty in all cases?
It could be down to the raid controller?
I'd suggest trying it on my perc t see what you get - i bet it'd be way above the sock raid controller. But you probably have them in use by now.
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4 x Samsung 2TB (raid 5)
1 x WD VelociRaptor WD3000HLFS
Asus 5870 1gb PCI-E
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« Reply #14 on: February 14, 2009, 10:02:54 AM » |
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I'm having a nightmare getting my Striker Extreme to recognise all 3 in the raid setup, it's either 1 or 2 in the raid setup and 1 in the bios. When I get all 3 in the bios the raid option is unavailable (press f10 to enter raid setup is gone)
Prob something to do with having a raid on the board before i installed these drives? Or am I doing something silly?
Hmmf
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