Talk me out of this

[Patrick]

Rebuilding my main workstation tonight/ tomorrow. Thinking about doing a 8x Sandforce SSD RAID 0 setup on either the LSI 9211-8i or IBM M1015. Only real reason is that the current 2x 120GB setup is running somewhat low on space... still... 2GB/s would be somewhat fun for a silent hard drive setup.

 

[nitrobass24]

Sounds like a bad idea.

I would send those drive to me and ill send you a 2TB drive so you dont run out of space

 

[Patrick]

Ha! Somewhat good news... I had to order a LGA1155 water block so that is slowing things a bit.

 

[PigLover]

Go with the 8xSSD in raid0. But remember that Raid 0 is fast, but fragile - and gets more risk with every drive added to it.

I've been running my main video editing rig with 4x64 OCZ drives for over a year. Its holds just OS, programs, and the temp store for Vegas. I was paranoid when I set it up, so I take an automated Ghost image of it every week. Fiugre I could lose a week of OS/programs with no problem. A couple of weeks ago one of the SSDs when silent any my machine was off-line. Only took about an hour to remove the bad drive, set it back up as a 3x64 Raid 0 and restore the last image. Back in business, fast as ever. OCZ took the warrenty RMA and got me a new disk in about two weeks and in just under another hour all was back to normal.

Fast raids of SSDs are awesome.
Fast raids of SSDs with good backup are even better...

 

[Patrick]

Yea, I have nightly backups and all files are stored on the network so basically it is just the PITA of restoring from a backup or worst case re-installing applications from the network.

Another option, of course, is to just buy 4 next-gen drives.