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10/31/12 at 10:29pm
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I'm building a new computer and want to reduce my data bottleneck. Since I can't find any motherboards with 4x SATAIII ports on it, I want to know if the better performance would come from 2x SATAIII SSD in RAID0 or from 4x SATAII SSD in RAID0. Before everyone jumps up and down to say how unstable it is, I'll be running an internal backup to a 1TB H.D.D.

Also, and I know all the purists out there will say there's no difference, but is there any difference between a SATAII and a SATAIII drive running on a SATAII port? I.E. Will I see any performance increase using 4x SATAIII drives in a SATAII port RAID?

Thanks in advance guys.
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10/31/12 at 10:38pm

You're going to see a pretty big bottleneck on SATA II with any modern SSD. I've seen a couple of 1155 boards with 6 SATA III ports. Btw, you likely won't see much of a real world difference putting SSD's in Raid 0 unless you do heavy database work or something else that requires high I/O performance.

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10/31/12 at 10:56pm
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Btw, you likely won't see much of a real world difference putting SSD's in Raid 0 unless you do heavy database work or something else that requires high I/O performance.
That is odd. I have 2 Samsung 830 in Raid 0 and I can install software faster than using 1 Samsung 830 plus my load time are faster too on games and software.
But I will still say stick with 1 SSD. I can lose a alot of time if and when my SSD fails.

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2 SSD II in raid 0 is about the same in perfromance as 1 SSD III.
So far I had 1 SSD II, 2 SSD II in Raid 0, 1 SSD III and 2 SSD III in raid 0.
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11/1/12 at 12:35pm
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I'm building a new computer and want to reduce my data bottleneck. Since I can't find any motherboards with 4x SATAIII ports on it, I want to know if the better performance would come from 2x SATAIII SSD in RAID0 or from 4x SATAII SSD in RAID0. Before everyone jumps up and down to say how unstable it is, I'll be running an internal backup to a 1TB H.D.D.
Also, and I know all the purists out there will say there's no difference, but is there any difference between a SATAII and a SATAIII drive running on a SATAII port? I.E. Will I see any performance increase using 4x SATAIII drives in a SATAII port RAID?
Thanks in advance guys.

My guess is performance of 4x SATAII RAID-0 and 2x SATAIII RAID-0 will be more or less the same.

By the way, here's a motherboard with 10x SATAIII ports (2x Intel X70, 8x LSI SAS2308):
ASRock X79 Extreme11

Personally, if I needed 4-way SATAIII RAID-0, I'd just get a Z77 motherboard and a separate RAID card.
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11/11/12 at 1:38pm
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My guess is performance of 4x SATAII RAID-0 and 2x SATAIII RAID-0 will be more or less the same.
By the way, here's a motherboard with 10x SATAIII ports (2x Intel X70, 8x LSI SAS2308):
ASRock X79 Extreme11
Personally, if I needed 4-way SATAIII RAID-0, I'd just get a Z77 motherboard and a separate RAID card.
Cheers for the product advise, but my budget wont stretch that far. Bit pricey for a mobo.
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That is odd. I have 2 Samsung 830 in Raid 0 and I can install software faster than using 1 Samsung 830 plus my load time are faster too on games and software.
But I will still say stick with 1 SSD. I can lose a alot of time if and when my SSD fails.
Edit
2 SSD II in raid 0 is about the same in perfromance as 1 SSD III.
So far I had 1 SSD II, 2 SSD II in Raid 0, 1 SSD III and 2 SSD III in raid 0.
That's why I'm running the internal backup to the standard HDD. If I'm going to make a speed machine, I'll go all out.
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Originally Posted by Ecstacy View Post

You're going to see a pretty big bottleneck on SATA II with any modern SSD. I've seen a couple of 1155 boards with 6 SATA III ports. Btw, you likely won't see much of a real world difference putting SSD's in Raid 0 unless you do heavy database work or something else that requires high I/O performance.
Thanks, but I'm looking to build a 2011 socket machine. And you'd be surprised how easily I can max out data transfer on a single SSD, so I'm going to give a RAID a try and see. Kinda in the nature of an experiment.

And thanks for all the advise, but I ended up getting screwed over with my tax return, so plans are on hold for the time being.
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