Originally Posted by HrnyGoat They tested a quad-array of Raptors and got a sustained transfer rate of over 300MB/s! ![]() |
Originally Posted by Bluecow003 Where did you get that info? SATAII is the fastest available consumer grade interface for hard drives and it's max limit is 300 MB/s. SATA-150 is 150 Mb/s and SATAII is 300 MB/s. All Raptors are SATA-150. |
Originally Posted by HrnyGoat They tested a quad-array of Raptors and got a sustained transfer rate of over 300MB/s! ![]() |
Originally Posted by DataX ehh... |
Originally Posted by Bluecow003 Show me the info that supports that, even if it is a quad-RAID0, I'd just like to know where that info is. |
Originally Posted by DataX This is what he was talking about: http://www.overclock.net/hard-drives...highlight=quad |
Originally Posted by Bluecow003 That is interesting. I noticed this in the article: "Burst Transfer Rates are insanely high, since we used an Areca RAID controller card with 128 MB of onboard DDR cache, which is more representative of the controller speed rather than the disk speeds." I wonder what the speeds would have been using an onboard RAID controller. |
Originally Posted by DataX That's a good point, but if your spending $1200+ on a Quad RAID-0 Raptor setup, then why are you going to cripple your performance using the onboard controller? Probably even without a Raid setup, you'd get better transfer rates with a pci controller than with onboard. |
Originally Posted by Bys0n You cant use use raid 0 on a quad array, you can only have 2 drives for raid 0 unless your on raid 0+1 in which case its kinda a waste of 2 perfectly good raptors |
Originally Posted by Bluecow003 Yes, the Raptor is a very nice drive to have, however you really do NOT need to do a RAID-0 setup. http://www.overclock.net/hard-drives...snt-worth.html Just get one Raptor, either the 74GB or the 150GB version. If you have the money then get the 150GB version. It performs better than the 74GB version, but both are definitely better than 7200RPM drives. Where did you get that info? SATAII is the fastest available consumer grade interface for hard drives and it's max limit is 300 MB/s. SATA-150 is 150 Mb/s and SATAII is 300 MB/s. All Raptors are SATA-150. |
Originally Posted by Blue_Fire dude if you divide 300Mb/s by four thats what EACH SATA channel would be getting not 300Mb/s for each SATA drive channel. |