Storage array: Bare drives, SS, RAID, SSD, or other?

Viceroy · Rated PG Joined: 21 Oct 2009 Posts: 4

Obviously the basic hierarchy would go SSD(Intel x25-m; OCZ) > 10k(Velociraptor) > 7.2k(Spinpoint F3; Caviar Black; Barracuda) > 5.4k(Caviar Green), but I am curious to see the relative performance of these drives when short-stroked or put into a RAID array so that I can better decide which combination of storage devices would be of the greatest benefit to me, with price and hassle of course factored in. General ideas are welcome, but I believe what would help me the most are benchmarks and numbers and graphs.

Thanks.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:59:14 Post Subject:

What are you doing with these drives? For a desktop system you'll probably rarely use the maximum potential performance of some of these drives in a RAID array.

I have stop using RAID arrays for my desktop PCs, although I used to... Juts a fast primary drive for an OS, and a high capacity drive for storage. But, I do also have a NAS with RAID5 for backing all of that up, too...