dude_56013
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Okay. Here's the dealio. I've got the new rig coming as per this post.
Briefly, again, here's the drives I'll have to play with. And here's the board's actual page.
3 x 64GB Crucial SSD
2 x 1TB WD Black HDD
Now, FOR SURE, there will be 2 x 64GB SSD in RAID0, and the 2 x 1TB WD Blacks will be in RAID1.
The SSDs will hold my OS partition (which would then include the Adobe Suite and other programs). The HDDs will hold data. This would be music, movies, documents, photos, etc.
QUESTION: I don't know if any of you will have an answer for me because the technology is so new, but will I have a bigger performance boost my adding the extra SSD to the RAID0 array (so 3 x 64GB SSDs) OR by caching the 2 x 1TB RAID1 WD HDDs to the extra SSD (if that's even possible to do...not sure if you can cache a RAID array or not).
Now, I THINK that I remember hearing that you can actually set aside a particular amount of an SSD for caching. So, could I theoretically RAID0 all THREE SSDs and then set aside, oh, 32GB for the caching of the 2 x 1TB HDDs? I feel as though that would be the best of both worlds, but I don't know if it's possible. Help me out guys. I've tried to get familiar with the technology but there's just not much out on it right now. I've read a few things from anandtech, but that's about it.
Thanks in advance for any advice, hints, clues, or articles to read up on.
'Preciate it, fellas.
Briefly, again, here's the drives I'll have to play with. And here's the board's actual page.
3 x 64GB Crucial SSD
2 x 1TB WD Black HDD
Now, FOR SURE, there will be 2 x 64GB SSD in RAID0, and the 2 x 1TB WD Blacks will be in RAID1.
The SSDs will hold my OS partition (which would then include the Adobe Suite and other programs). The HDDs will hold data. This would be music, movies, documents, photos, etc.
QUESTION: I don't know if any of you will have an answer for me because the technology is so new, but will I have a bigger performance boost my adding the extra SSD to the RAID0 array (so 3 x 64GB SSDs) OR by caching the 2 x 1TB RAID1 WD HDDs to the extra SSD (if that's even possible to do...not sure if you can cache a RAID array or not).
Now, I THINK that I remember hearing that you can actually set aside a particular amount of an SSD for caching. So, could I theoretically RAID0 all THREE SSDs and then set aside, oh, 32GB for the caching of the 2 x 1TB HDDs? I feel as though that would be the best of both worlds, but I don't know if it's possible. Help me out guys. I've tried to get familiar with the technology but there's just not much out on it right now. I've read a few things from anandtech, but that's about it.
Thanks in advance for any advice, hints, clues, or articles to read up on.
'Preciate it, fellas.