LSI 9260-4i w/4 60gb CZ SSD'a

[GFDuke]

I've been spanking the hell out of my OCZ's with the ICH10 but this card is freaking sweet. This 2x core i5 670 pc05 run kicked my 3570 quad's ass. But thats until i set up that bad ass chip on this sweet RAID card. lol

Click here for info LSI 9260 (http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/internal_raid/megaraid_sas/6gb_s_value_line/sas9260-4i/index.html?locale=EN&remote=1#Miscellaneous)

[Witchdoctor]

sick pass Duke

can't get mine to give me a score

the key I have doesn't work ......:ohcrap:

I have media encoder installed ????

Cold up there bro it is freezing here in PA .... good benching weather

[Chuchnit]

Man I want a Raid card and some ssd's..... For 24/7 do you guys think it's money well spent?

[GFDuke]

Man I want a Raid card and some ssd's..... For 24/7 do you guys think it's money well spent?

I wouldnt do it for a 24/7 rig. It's just another investment in the bencher for me. There's really no need for this kind of speed in a daily use pc.

[Witchdoctor]

I just have one.... 30 gig for my os

it will boost you in desktop preformance than any thing else you can buy

mine is almost like turning a TV on ......

plus killer PCM05 scores to boot ........... no pun intended ......:taunt:

[Dentlord]

I got 22628 out of my vertex ssd's on the ich10r with my 920, Ill be interested to see what the raid card does for you!!

EDIT: vertex? wtf lol I have torqx drives. I am half weetodid

[Neuromancer]

Wow sick score man!

I can not wait till SSDs come down enough in price that I can make that investment :)

I will be torn though... 24/7 rig... bench rig... argh.

[punx223]

chuchnit... ssd's for 24/7 GREAT investment....

SSD's for benching BAD IDEA...

They corrupt very easy.... only good for pcmark...

get a couple velociraptors or a single and run for benching

[GFDuke]

chuchnit... ssd's for 24/7 GREAT investment....

SSD's for benching BAD IDEA...

They corrupt very easy.... only good for pcmark...

get a couple velociraptors or a single and run for benching

Exactly. Its a big investment for 1 bench run.

[rickss69]

Yep - Couple of bsod's and the array is toast. You will be pissed and starting from scratch again. :ohcrap:

[punx223]

Yep - Couple of bsod's and the array is toast. You will be pissed and starting from scratch again. :ohcrap:

been there done that...

but for 24/7 rig theyre great

[GFDuke]

Ah whats 20 min to instal an os every day. That way you keep a clean OS. lmao

ps: tuning up the 3570 as i type. Results in 30

[RomDominance]

Got get em DUKE!

[GFDuke]

Hmmm This install went a little smoother and the numbers show it. I think also the fact i cleaned the drives before the install. I had a few botched installs (cause i'm a nooob at RAID cards) on the i670 setup and i didn't do sanitary erase before the final sucessful one. The tests look good but i was expecting better on the quad. Then again high clocks mean nothing in the bench.

W3570 HWBOT Submission (http://www.hwbot.org/community/submission/953057_gfduke_pcmark_2005_xeon_w3570_23435_marks)
Core i5 670 HWBOT submission (http://www.hwbot.org/community/submission/952738_gfduke_pcmark_2005_core_i5_670_21141_marks)

[Buckeye]

SSD's for 24/7 use ??

I love them :)
I have gotten so used to the speed of these bad boys that going back to HDD's is not an option for my 24/7 use.

[Witchdoctor]

I heard that ... another year or two and mechanical drives will be a thing of the past.

I still use them for storage but couldn't even think about an OS install on one anymore

SSD = WIN IMHO

[GFDuke]

Dude you should be puttin up some screaming PC05 with those. What controller are you using?

[karmakazi]

Nice scores guys! pcmark is a fav of mine, so tweakable in so many ways... Im old school though, I got I-rams:blush:

[GFDuke]

Maybe you could throw some pc05 tweaks our way?

Seriously looking at a Acard.

[GFDuke]

I just wanted to remark on a theory i have. Since i've installed my LSI RAID Card i have had no corruption issues at all because of crashes. I'm on my 5th install of RAID0 arrays since my purchase of the card only because of the want/need to switch OS's. But, in all of the installs i bsod'd, (too many times to count) i've never once lost my OS because of a hard crash. My thoery is that all the ruined RAID0 OS's that happend because of system crashes relate directly to the ICH10.

[Kal-EL]

I just wanted to remark on a theory i have. Since i've installed my LSI RAID Card i have had no corruption issues at all because of crashes. I'm on my 5th install of RAID0 arrays since my purchase of the card only because of the want/need to switch OS's. But, in all of the installs i bsod'd, (too many times to count) i've never once lost my OS because of a hard crash. My thoery is that all the ruined RAID0 OS's that happend because of system crashes relate directly to the ICH10.

I'd ride that boat with yah :thumbsup:

[GFDuke]

Put the RAID Card on the 2600K and Asus M4E. Something went right. Ran it 3 time to make sure i was reading this right. Idk but it looks promising.

[Neuromancer]

This aint hte same Vertex drives is it? The pic is small but it says 1.75M writes and 2.5M reads? That is not possible with 4 drives!!!!

[GFDuke]

What i thought Neuro. Yea same drives but only 3 not 4. I figured it out i think. I was running Atto @ 256mb length. Should be 1gb i think. Scores the same over and over on 256. I get around 500W/800R @ 1gb length.

[Neuromancer]

What i thought Neuro. Yea same drives but only 3 not 4. I figured it out i think. I was running Atto @ 256mb length. Should be 1gb i think. Scores the same over and over on 256. I get around 500W/800R @ 1gb length.

Ahh.. I looked up your card (Im not used to dedicated RAID cards)

"512MB DDRII cache (800MHz)"

ATTO was benching the onboard cache I suppose :)

This bodes well since it can handle a number of drives it should at least post well into the 2GB/s range :) WITHOUT taxing the CPU.

I need to get my a HW RAID card. First thing though is more HDD/SSDs