HDD RAID vs. SDD Single

[Guest]

Hey everyone,

I was curious if anyone knew which was faster?

A single SDD (probably an OCZ Agility 2)

or

2 HDD SATA IIs in a RAID 0 configuration? (Probably 2 Western Digital Blacks)

Thank you.

 

[Guest]

Perhaps I should clarify that the Western Digitals would be 7200RPM SATAII NCQ drives. The Black series.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

A single SSD will destroy any mechanical drives in RAID.

 

[Guest]

A single SSD will destroy any mechanical drives in RAID.

I appreciate the reply. Basically what Im doing is I'm setting up a RAID in a new Mac Pro for the purposes of video editing. That being said if money is no issue, I'm simply better off with SSDs then I am a HDD RAID. And considering an Apple RAID card is near 700$ for the card ALONE, it almost makes more fiscal sense as well

 

[Deleted member 217926]

New SSDs were just released at CES I believe but the Crucial C300, OCZ Vertex 2 and GSkill Phoenix pro were the fastest. Not sure about the brand new stuff.

 

[Guest]

Best answer selected by chrisgavr.

 

[Guest]

New SSDs were just released at CES I believe but the Crucial C300, OCZ Vertex 2 and GSkill Phoenix pro were the fastest. Not sure about the brand new stuff.

I read somewhere that SSDs in a RAID can become saturated. Have you any experience with this? Am I better off having non-RAID SSDs? Or will SSDs in a RAID increase in performance?

 

[Deleted member 217926]

I am not that familiar with Apple and how they handle SSDs. Windows 7 has TRIM support that makes the drive last longer than if it was in RAID. RAID will still increase performance but at a cost of lifespan.

You need a Mac guy and that I am not lol , sorry.

 

[amir89hamzah]

what do you mean?

 

[Mousemonkey]

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