time for a super crazy raid testing
setup going on so thing that I got going on so here I have seven Seagate
Barracuda 3 tbte desktop drives um and I
have one Samsung 512 gig 830 series SSD
so what I'm going to be doing with these is I have a new raid card here from adaptech this is their
6805 TQ so it includes a super capacitor
or whatever it is they call it basically it's it's kind of like a battery backup
in that it will allow anything that is cached to be written but it is not an
actual battery so it's a slightly different technology one thing to be careful of with these things is you
don't want to plug them in or unplug them when they are charged they ship
discharg so you can plug them in before you install it but just be aware of that
you can mess stuff up so there's the raid card there this supports adap teex
Max cash 2.0 so the difference between Max cash and Max cash 2.0 is that Max
cash 2.0 supports random ssds it also
supports much larger ssds than consumer Technologies like Intel SRT so I want to
take this massive raid array I'm going to do the whole thing in raid zero
striped so that means there will be no fault tolerance but we will be getting
pretty much as much performance perance as you can get from a single single raid
card with a reasonable number of drives I mean even this number of drives is kind of unreasonable so this 512 gig
cache will be caching 21 TBT of
mechanical storage I want to test this we're going to have an upcoming NCI Tech
tips on this I want to test this against
some sort of more modern configurations to see what we can potentially do with
the future of storage compared to a single SSD today a single hard drive
today or a h solution like a momentus XT
today so here I'm configuring my Max Max
cach SSD caching so I've added one SSD
to the pool you can obviously add as many ssds as you want to the well no I
think it's actually got a limit
um whatever it's done now so here you can see my finished configuration I've
got my RAID zero set up with my yeah
raid zero cached with 19 plus terabyt so that's 21 terabytes
depending on how you measure it come on Focus please raid zero okay and then
I've got my SSD set up as a cache so I am ready to run some performance
performance benchmarks I'm going to be using PC Mark and doing several runs
because I'm going to be comparing it against some other configurations to see
how it B how it uh how it performs at first and then how it performs in
subsequent runs with the caching enabled as the controller learns so uh stay
tuned for the NCI Tech tips on that and thanks thanks for checking out this
configuration process for maxc 2.0 so
the eight drives hooked up to the adapt Tech controller are these eight these
eight right here are in raid six on the
orka controller and I might as well Benchmark that while we're at it just
for comparison and then these two are just AR raid one for the OS backup for
Windows Home Server so uh don't forget to subscribe K detectives for more
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guys sorry as I'm getting into my benchmarking here I noticed something
cool so that is that it actually gives you a readout of the uh the overall
usage of your rate array which is very cool so I can actually monitor how much
the SSD cache is affecting how things go in fact there's the D statistics I/O and
Max cach statistics right there very cool stuff