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RAID 0 ARRAY WITH RAID 0 CACHING

Nov 17, 2011 10:27AM PST

I'm in the market for building a new rig to my worn out Q6600 + GTX 260 system. I will probably go with pretty standard modern equivalents like i7 2600k and a nvidia 400 or 500 series (you should toss in your 2 cents on this).

My real question stems from my desire to have seriously upgraded storage. I want Raid 0, I know that for sure. What do you all think about SSDcaching? I don't want to go solely the SSD route, because I feel like the technology is still pretty immature. Is a RAID 0 setup system possible with SSD caching? What about a RAID 0 setup with 2 cache SSDs in RAID 0? I think the latter would be pretty bad ***.

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When I read this my thought was
Nov 17, 2011 10:38AM PST

Look at the ADAPTEC RAID CONTROLLERS and company.

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when I first read that I thought-
Nov 17, 2011 12:03PM PST

looks expensive. Should i just stick to raid, or caching, or raid hdd, with caching. I have omitted raid caching- seems ludicrous. (awesome, but ridiculous.) Well, actually it would be dumb, because a pure raid sdd setup would be better and simpler.

but out of the former 3, raid hdds, hdd with cache, raid hdd with caching or the 4th, pure raid/non-raid sdd. which is best?

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To determine best you build it, test it and post results.
Nov 18, 2011 3:02AM PST

If you are really lucky, someone has built it before.