So I'm waiting for a bit before jumping into the market as my current PC is still awesome...but...here's what I had in mind.
I currently have 2 18gb U120 15k rpm SCSI Drives (yes, that small, but like 6 yrs old lol) in Raid 0 (never failed), so I want to maintain that performance.
1.) 2x 146gb SAS 15k U320 drives in RAID 0 for apps
2.) 2x 32GB SSD drives in RAID 0 for OS.
3.) 2x 1TB SATA2 10k drives in RAID1 for everything else. (movies, music, etc etc)
I won't get into models and spec, but that's what I'm leaning towards. The fast solid state drives simply for OS. I saw benchmarks that showed Raid 0 nearly doubling the read on those drives, whereas raid 0 doesn't show that much of a speed increase on magnetic drives. Also, the 15k Serial Attached SCSI drives for games and apps, and the 1TB with parity for my important data.
A bit by bit image of the SSD and SAS drives would easily plug into the 1TB once a month just in case, which is why I'd prefer the performance increase over the parity.
Let me know what you guys think, as I've only spent a little bit of time coming up with this solution.
Thank you!
-Curt
I currently have 2 18gb U120 15k rpm SCSI Drives (yes, that small, but like 6 yrs old lol) in Raid 0 (never failed), so I want to maintain that performance.
1.) 2x 146gb SAS 15k U320 drives in RAID 0 for apps
2.) 2x 32GB SSD drives in RAID 0 for OS.
3.) 2x 1TB SATA2 10k drives in RAID1 for everything else. (movies, music, etc etc)
I won't get into models and spec, but that's what I'm leaning towards. The fast solid state drives simply for OS. I saw benchmarks that showed Raid 0 nearly doubling the read on those drives, whereas raid 0 doesn't show that much of a speed increase on magnetic drives. Also, the 15k Serial Attached SCSI drives for games and apps, and the 1TB with parity for my important data.
A bit by bit image of the SSD and SAS drives would easily plug into the 1TB once a month just in case, which is why I'd prefer the performance increase over the parity.
Let me know what you guys think, as I've only spent a little bit of time coming up with this solution.
Thank you!
-Curt