[hellcamino]

Originally Posted by Kal-EL

Nope to onboard, I have an Areca-1220 8 sata port raid card to use. Which SSD's are u suggesting?

It appears from what Neuromancer is saying that you will end up capped at about 400 mb/s with your Areca, if you use the ICH10R that is onboard for any modern intel board you will do significantly better.

That said I use a pair of the 30gb vertex drives for my os on an ICH10R sb.
3x74gb raptors up top and my 2 ssd's below both running on a 128k stripe.

[Neuromancer]

Originally Posted by hellcamino

It appears from what Neuromancer is saying that you will end up capped at about 400 mb/s with your Areca, if you use the ICH10R that is onboard for any modern intel board you will do significantly better.

That said I use a pair of the 30gb vertex drives for my os on an ICH10R sb.
3x74gb raptors up top and my 2 ssd's below both running on a 128k stripe.

Yah the MTRONs Dom was raiding have significantly, lower read writes than the vertex. 2 will max out the aerca and 4-5 will max out hte 800MHz IOPS controller (Areca 1232?)

EDIT: wow very nice