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Evened out the 8 velociraptors so they fall 2 per expander . HDTach Avg: 487MB/s HDTune Avg: 441MB/s Spiky graphs as well, from what I used to seeing from such a tiny slice(120GB) of such a big chunk (2.4TB) of fast drive space.

Quote: Originally Posted by Micro Yes, I wouldn't have bothered posting the warning if I didn't. Nothing personal, but I have read a lot of warings based in speculation or technical insight, not on actual experiences over the years. Nothing personal, but people often base they're warnings on diffrent things. Don't get me wrong, I really appriciate the info you have given, and the clarification. AtW

Just put the order in this morning for the Hitachi's. Wish i would have looked on Newegg earlier as they have a $30 US rebate on the Hitachi 1TB drives right now, but of course they are out of stock.

I wote for SAS My new OS drive: Areca 1680ix-12 + 10x Seagate sas 15k.5 @ Raid-0

Looks like it is the DRAM error reporting driver that is not a available. I looked at the HCL and there were other 7501 chipset servers that had that error in the pci info but were certified anyway. I am going to buy the AOC-SAT2-MV8 and give ZFS and RAID-Z a try.

Quote: Originally Posted by ATWindsor Nothing personal, but I have read a lot of warings based in speculation or technical insight, not on actual experiences over the years. Nothing personal, but people often base they're warnings on diffrent things. Don't get me wrong, I really appriciate the info you have given, and the clarification. AtW I didn't take it personally and understand I make it a habit to only post where I have...

Yeh, but he's not using the Raptors as DV editing disks, just system and apps. It would not really speed up the editing process or the torrent unless it's on the array. As for speeding up VM and massive multitasking in general, I'd go with 64-bit OS and 8GB RAM. 2x2GB DDR2-800 4-4-4-12 is about $50 now.

It highly depends on workload. In my case I really noticed going from raptors to sas it was plain just with normal application loads. now my workload is highly dependant on many relatively small reads/writes and running numerous items at the same time so it's not even close to a normal desktop user workload. The full duplex nature of sas over half duplex sata helps but the main item was the smaller platter size and faster rpm (ie, shorter...

Quote: Originally Posted by MicahHiggs Should I: A) buy a second raptor. B) sell the raptor, sell the 400, sell the 200, maybe sell my soul B) then buy a Samsung or Intel SSD

Isn't the AOC-SAT2-MV8 just a dumb SATA II card? You could just run a software RAID 5 or RAID 6 across the drives.