{"video_id":"JPuywNBctvg","title":"4x SSD RAID 0 Test on Intel's Z87 Platform","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2014-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":229,"segments":[{"start_s":5.799,"end_s":12.04,"text":"adata xpg V2 memory kits are optimized for the latest Intel gaming platforms","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":10.599,"end_s":16.44,"text":"check the link in the video description for more details now we all know ssds","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.519,"end_s":21.519,"text":"are pretty much the ultimate in terms of performance on a desktop system for your","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":18.52,"end_s":26.16,"text":"storage but what many of you probably actually do know is that you can run","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":23.24,"end_s":31.279,"text":"multiple ssds together in raid zero kind of like SLI for ssds to get even 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computer videos give the video a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":206.48,"end_s":212.799,"text":"like if you liked it give a dislike if you disliked it or you're having aad day","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":210.28,"end_s":216.159,"text":"or you didn't like the cereal your mom bought from the grocery store and you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":214.12,"end_s":220.05,"text":"just wish you bought something else and leave a comment let me know your","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":217.36,"end_s":230.49,"text":"favorite kind of cereal","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"adata xpg V2 memory kits are optimized for the latest Intel gaming platforms check the link in the video description for more details now we all know ssds are pretty much the ultimate in terms of performance on a desktop system for your storage but what many of you probably actually do know is that you can run multiple ssds together in raid zero kind of like SLI for ssds to get even better performance out of of them particularly in sequential read and write operations now it doesn't much like SLI it doesn't necessarily scale perfectly it's like if you run 16 ssds in a system will it perform 16 times better the answer is no but without getting into expensive fancy Hardware raid cards or other Exotic Solutions we wanted to find out where exactly is the limit in scaling for ssds running on a regular Intel Desktop PC we this platform because it has six SATA 36 GB per second ports running off of the Intel chipset the last generation z77 only had two so it was really hard to do this kind of an investigative thing so we decided to run four different configurations by the way big thanks to adata for providing these sx900 sand Force based ssds for our test we ran single drive two drive three drive and four Drive I lost the last box I have no idea where it is so don't worry trust me we definitely ran four Drive drives they're all there um and we wanted to see where the differences in performance really start well disappearing so to speak so we ran three different benchmarks we ran PC Mark Vantage so we ran the storage subsystem test and what you'll see here is that it becomes quite clear very quickly that just because you double the theoretical performance of one aspect of your system doesn't mean that you're necessarily going to double the real world performance because PC Mark is more of a real world oriented test we also Alo see that that small performance difference even continues to diminish as we add more and more drives giving us that sort of well aderes to the law of diminishing returns just like you'd see with adding more channels to memory operation or adding more graphics cards to an SLI or Crossfire config now when we move on to a synthetic test we ran both reads and right speeds using the black magic disc speed test which we found to be quite repeatable and quite realistic in terms of theoretical maximums you'll see that once again we see a very clear doubling of performance going from a single drive to a two Drive configuration but once we get into these multi-drive configs three drives still scales extremely well but adding a fourth drive really doesn't do a whole lot for even theoretical performance so while you'll still get extra capacity when you run four 256 gig ssds in raate zero you get effectively 1 terab of capacity you won't necessarily continue to get a speed Improvement and you should also be aware that every time you add another SSD you are adding to the points of failure that exist in your system and increasing the risk that just by a single Drive failing you will lose all of your data if you aren't doing very regular backups so thank you for checking out this raid Zero Performance investigation with the adata sx900 ssds don't forget to subscribe to lus techtips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos give the video a like if you liked it give a dislike if you disliked it or you're 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