It's an interesting comment you make regarding RAID, why do you believe it is not preferable? The performance V cost of storage are very good. 2x128GB SSD in RAID-0 works well and gives you v-high speeds. Long term storage, perhaps this has more merit? But then, long term storage is better suited to a platter anyhow. Not trying to start a brawl, just a comment which jumped out the page at me.

It's an interesting comment you make regarding RAID, why do you believe it is not preferable? The performance V cost of storage are very good. 2x128GB SSD in RAID-0 works well and gives you v-high speeds. Long term storage, perhaps this has more merit? But then, long term storage is better suited to a platter anyhow. Not trying to start a brawl, just a comment which jumped out the page at me.

If I had to guess, it's because you'd lose performance on small files. RAID+SSDs only makes sense if you're streaming an immense amount of data. Keep in mind the "I" in RAID means "inexpensive", and drives like this can hardly be categorized as such. RAID works best with mechanical HDDs. Generally speaking, if you need faster read/write speeds, a RAM drive is better. A few years ago, I tested a 1GB RAM disk in linux and got over 2GB/s write speed. This was on a Celeron with single-channel DDR2 memory. Considering DDR4 will have 128GB modules and 10Gb/s ethernet is starting to emerge, I think it'll be in people's best interests to create a dedicated RAM disk computer and run PXE boots.

If I had to guess, it's because you'd lose performance on small files. RAID+SSDs only makes sense if you're streaming an immense amount of data. Keep in mind the "I" in RAID means "inexpensive", and drives like this can hardly be categorized as such. RAID works best with mechanical HDDs. Generally speaking, if you need faster read/write speeds, a RAM drive is better. A few years ago, I tested a 1GB RAM disk in linux and got over 2GB/s write speed. This was on a Celeron with single-channel DDR2 memory. Considering DDR4 will have 128GB modules and 10Gb/s ethernet is starting to emerge, I think it'll be in people's best interests to create a dedicated RAM disk computer and run PXE boots.

The "I" can also stand for "independent"

I think that for people that are stuck with aon X58 motherboard like me this can be a good solution. To go higher in reading speed i have to do a 4x raid0 on sata 2 channells. Do you think this solution works good with x58 chipset?

I think that for people that are stuck with aon X58 motherboard like me this can be a good solution. To go higher in reading speed i have to do a 4x raid0 on sata 2 channells. Do you think this solution works good with x58 chipset?

Should be okily dokily. The PCI-E 2.0 4x slot has a theoretic bandwidth of 2GB/s ( in either direction and at the same time ) irrespective of the chipset version. Thankfully I won't be stuck with my X58 motherboard for long. 4 striped SSDs sounds great, but I think 2-3 would be good enough for me, or whatever it takes to get comfortably over 1GB/s write.