Dave Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 I'm testing WIndows 8 on my video production rig. I've unplugged my Win7 SSD and data drive ( which is a spinner) and have installed Win8 on two Kingston HyperX 120 SSD's in a RAID 0 config. I am using a single SanDisk Ultra Plus 128GB as the Data drive, or app drive, etc. Windows 8 is already pretty zippy and I'm wondering if I shouldn't reverse that setup. Use a single SSD as the OS and RAID 0 two of them for the app drive. Get a lot of speed out of loading apps. I ran ATTO against them both. No screen caps but the C: drive in a RAID 0 was something around 540 MB / Sec on read and write. The app drive, single SSD, is 250 to 280 MB / Sec. Just curious what you guys are doing for your desktop and your opinion on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcdoc Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 Unless you are running Sata 2 or your SSD is very slow, you should be getting 500-550 out of you SSD as well. This would make them on par in terms of performance. I would go with SSD for the OS and the apps/scratch drive on the RAID 0, and data on the server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted September 6, 2013 Author Share Posted September 6, 2013 I left that little piece of info out didn't I? This is where you tell me to get a new mobo or SATA card. It's an older Asus P6T. All ports are only 3Gb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcdoc Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 I left that little piece of info out didn't I? This is where you tell me to get a new mobo or SATA card. It's an older Asus P6T. All ports are only 3Gb. Yep, that would a great upgrade. You could even re-use the CPU and spend around $100 for a new motherboard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikon Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 Or get a SATA3 add-in card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted September 6, 2013 Author Share Posted September 6, 2013 I'll dig around for Mobo's. It's pretty old CPU though. x58 i think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pancakes Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 Actually, that won't improve speed a great deal. its the IOPS that matter for the zippyness Ill find the article on Tom's Hardware if I can, you should be fine on SATAII Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcdoc Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 Actually, that won't improve speed a great deal. its the IOPS that matter for the zippyness Ill find the article on Tom's Hardware if I can, you should be fine on SATAII Will be interested in reading that as my testing show different on faster SSD. On hard drives I completely agree but not on an SSD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Miner Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 I'm testing WIndows 8 on my video production rig. I've unplugged my Win7 SSD and data drive ( which is a spinner) and have installed Win8 on two Kingston HyperX 120 SSD's in a RAID 0 config. I am using a single SanDisk Ultra Plus 128GB as the Data drive, or app drive, etc. Windows 8 is already pretty zippy and I'm wondering if I shouldn't reverse that setup. Use a single SSD as the OS and RAID 0 two of them for the app drive. Get a lot of speed out of loading apps. I ran ATTO against them both. No screen caps but the C: drive in a RAID 0 was something around 540 MB / Sec on read and write. The app drive, single SSD, is 250 to 280 MB / Sec. Just curious what you guys are doing for your desktop and your opinion on this. I would reverse the set-up which is pretty close to what I'm doin with my Desktop. My desktop is an X58 and to run Win8 on it I had to turn off the Marvell chips drivn the GSATA III Ports so I moved my SSD to a SATA II port for the OS -- which is still pretty fast loading the OS etc but of course it's capped by the SATA II and then I use 3 VR's (each on a SATA II Port) in RAID0 for my Video Editing drive and it works pretty well -- it's very responsive -- i think it would be the same for you with 2 SSD's in RAID0. My final edited video files are copied to the Server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted September 7, 2013 Author Share Posted September 7, 2013 I think i've installed Windows 8 at least 5 times in the last two days! My experiments are over and yes, I did swap them around. One 128 SSD as the OS and a stripe on two additional. This is the first time I've had only SSD in my desktop. No spinners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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