4x SSD RAID 0 Test on Intel's Z87 Platform
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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adata xpg V2 memory kits are optimized for the latest Intel gaming platforms
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check the link in the video description for more details now we all know ssds
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are pretty much the ultimate in terms of performance on a desktop system for your
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storage but what many of you probably actually do know is that you can run
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multiple ssds together in raid zero kind of like SLI for ssds to get even better
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performance out of of them particularly in sequential read and write operations
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now it doesn't much like SLI it doesn't
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necessarily scale perfectly it's like if you run 16 ssds in a system will it
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perform 16 times better the answer is no but without getting into expensive fancy
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Hardware raid cards or other Exotic Solutions we wanted to find out where
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exactly is the limit in scaling for ssds
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running on a regular Intel Desktop PC we
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this platform because it has six SATA 36 GB per second ports running off of the
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Intel chipset the last generation z77 only had two so it was really hard to do
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this kind of an investigative thing so we decided to run four different
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configurations by the way big thanks to adata for providing these sx900 sand
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Force based ssds for our test we ran single drive two drive three drive and
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four Drive I lost the last box I have no idea where it is so don't worry trust me
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we definitely ran four Drive drives they're all there um and we wanted to
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see where the differences in performance really start well disappearing so to
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speak so we ran three different benchmarks we ran PC Mark Vantage so we
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ran the storage subsystem test and what you'll see here is that it becomes quite
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clear very quickly that just because you double the theoretical performance of
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one aspect of your system doesn't mean that you're necessarily going to double
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the real world performance because PC Mark is more of a real world oriented
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test we also Alo see that that small performance difference even continues to
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diminish as we add more and more drives giving us that sort of well aderes to
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the law of diminishing returns just like you'd see with adding more channels to
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memory operation or adding more graphics cards to an SLI or Crossfire config now
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when we move on to a synthetic test we ran both reads and right speeds using
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the black magic disc speed test which we found to be quite repeatable and quite
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realistic in terms of theoretical maximums you'll see that once again we
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see a very clear doubling of performance going from a single drive to a two Drive
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configuration but once we get into these multi-drive configs three drives still
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scales extremely well but adding a fourth drive really doesn't do a whole
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lot for even theoretical performance so
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while you'll still get extra capacity when you run four 256 gig ssds in raate
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zero you get effectively 1 terab of capacity you won't necessarily continue
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to get a speed Improvement and you should also be aware that every time you
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add another SSD you are adding to the
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points of failure that exist in your system and increasing the risk that just
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by a single Drive failing you will lose
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all of your data if you aren't doing very regular backups so thank you for
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checking out this raid Zero Performance investigation with the adata sx900 ssds
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