[REL]Equipmen Upgrades Fix by TheBeast

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by TheBeast

I have 2 SSD's so I guess one will be for OS/Apps and the other one for games.
I need to ensure they are on sepporate IDE bus to reduce transfer speed degradation if both drives are being access at same time. They transfer @ 520Mbs Read and 515Mbs Write.
I plan to use the 500g SATA drive just for storage space with hidden partition for System Restore Image.

These are not SATA SSDs?
I have two OCZ Vertex 3 MAXIOPS in a RAID0 config. Theoretically speaking I should be seeing > 1100MB/sec read speeds (each SSD is > 550MB/s read) since they are in RAID0 but I only see ~ 600 MB/sec. This is due to the controller on the MB (Asus Crosshair V Formula). There is only 'one' channel usually for SATA and it's usually an X4 or X6 channel.
I put everything on the RAID0 - OS, games, etc. I disabled the page file, indexing, all that crap that isn't needed and will only degrade the SSD overtime.
Point is your motherboard determines everything about your system. If you have a so-so MB then you'll have so-so experience.

For some reason those using Intel based MBs with the same drives in RAID0 can get read speeds > 1000MB/s. That really pisses me off to no end (I'm an AMD fan).

[TheBeast]

Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith

These are not SATA SSDs?
I have two OCZ Vertex 3 MAXIOPS in a RAID0 config. Theoretically speaking I should be seeing > 1100MB/sec read speeds (each SSD is > 550MB/s read) since they are in RAID0 but I only see ~ 600 MB/sec. This is due to the controller on the MB (Asus Crosshair V Formula). There is only 'one' channel usually for SATA and it's usually an X4 or X6 channel.
I put everything on the RAID0 - OS, games, etc. I disabled the page file, indexing, all that crap that isn't needed and will only degrade the SSD overtime.
Point is your motherboard determines everything about your system. If you have a so-so MB then you'll have so-so experience.

For some reason those using Intel based MBs with the same drives in RAID0 can get read speeds > 1000MB/s. That really pisses me off to no end (I'm an AMD fan).

Yeah, I was wondering about those Corsair Force GT Series 120GB Solid State Drives myself. Not sure if the Mother Board has built in support for these drives but I need to pick up mounting brackets anyway so I may pickup a Controller at same time if needed. Just need Mother Board to get here because they were not sure what Model was ordered.
The Main Board is supposed to be here Tuesday but I am willing to bet it will be at least a day later.
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I checked and the Corsair Force GT Series 120GB Solid State Drives are SATA 3 type drives. It is printed right on the front of the drive.

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by TheBeast

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I checked and the Corsair Force GT Series 120GB Solid State Drives are SATA 3 type drives. It is printed right on the front of the drive.

It's a night and day difference making the move to SSD from spinning hard drives You'll never go back to mechanical drives ever again.

You do have to set them up correctly though. There are many things in the OS that you need to disable/check are disabled or performance will suffer and accelerated drive degradation will happen (you can only write to each 'cell' on these drives so many times before the 'cell' dies). Google installing SSD, switching to SSD, etc. to find out about them. Win7 is fairly good about detecting the SSDs on a new install of it and disabling/setting up mostly everything.
I would not keep the page file on the SSDs. Better yet disable the page file if you have enough RAM. If not move the page file over to a mechanical drive. There's no reason to waste precious write cycles on your SSD to the page file.

[GT182]

Beast, go get H-60 water cooling for the CPU. It's the best way to cool it I've seen yet..... and very quiet too. I can only hear the top fan in my Cooler Master 922 case running.