nosirrahx

RAID 0 slows down 4KQ1T1 performance, which is what makes an OS feel snappy.

 

You are not really looking at RAID 1 the right way. There are many events that render RAID 1 useless if your goal is to avoid needing to "rip or download again".

RAID 1 lets you keep using a system uninterrupted if a drive fails so that you can complete current tasks and then replace the failed drive to rebuild during your existing scheduled downtime. RAID 1 is downtime mitigation. If that is not your goal, you have chosen the wrong solution.

 

2080ti DisplayPort -> display
2080ti HDMI -> receiver -> speakers + same display (don't worry, this makes more sense in a minute)
Set display to DisplayPort input
Set Nvidia CP to video over DisplayPort and sound over HDMI (what we did above allows this through a "ghost" monitor.
In display settings you will see a "ghost" monitor representing your HDMI connection.
Move this "ghost" monitor so that its corner is touching the corner of the active display. This will make it impossible to move the pointer to the "ghost" display.

I literally had your same issue a few months back and this solution allowed me to have 5.1 surround sound from a PC using an existing home theater setup.
 
EDIT:

You can see the final result here:
 
 

I think I have a solution.
 
I have my test monitor set as primary connected through displayport. I have the same monitor connected via HDMI though my receiver. This does create a ghost monitor but if I set its position so that its corner is touching the corner of the primary display it is impossible to accidentally move the pointer to this ghost display.
 
Even though the monitor is effectively dead on HDMI (because displayport is primary) I can still send audio to HDMI as it sees the receiver as an audio option over HDMI.
 
Man, what a PITA. It would be nice if MS and the GFX card companies would enable HDMI audio out as a supported option so all of this could be simplified.

I just did this on a pile of 2.5 inch SATA HDDs collected from a few years of laptop HDD -> SSD upgrades.

I think the slowest one out of the whole pile took about maybe 15 seconds.

Parity is data used to take the non corrupt disks and recreate the missing data. It is not a pair of data.

Picture disk 1 2 3 and 4 being data, 5 is parity.

Put a 1 on disk 1 and 3 and a 0 on disk 2 and 4. Add those together and ditch what you carry, you get 0, store that on disk 5.

Now disk 3 dies. If you add disk 1, 2 and 4 you get a 1. Parity disk 5 is a 0 so the missing bit has to be a 1.

This is a MASSIVE oversimplification (especially since RAID 6 uses 2 parity disks, not 1) but the general math works this way and is why the parity is much smaller than the total primary storage.

100-130 Usd on top of the hyper card and the 4 m.2 drives to get it working awesome ? thanks for the help or tip nosirrahx

I am an avid user of Optane myself (4X VROC 900P, 905P, 2 800P in RAID 0, Optane + SATA....) but it is impossible to deny the reality that is the Optane support section. You should read through it sometime, people are having all kinds of problems:

https://forums.intel.com/s/topic/0TO0P00000018NRWAY/intel-optane-memory?language=en_US

BTW, check out just how much Meltdown and Specter mitigation takes away from Optane in a variety of scenarios (my review):

https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/meltdown-and-specter-patch-performance-hit-tested-on-optane-and-vroc.421594/

I think Intel hit the ground stumbling with a combination of terrible price, terrible capacity, annoying configuration and annoying form factor (U.2 and M.2 22110).

Had Intel simply waited for development to reach a point where they could offer AIO NAND + Optane SSDs I think they would have had a hit on their hands.

IMO Optane is a cool tech toy for geeks with $ and that is about it. For most people its just a major PITA.

BTW, I should also inform anyone reading this, reinstalling windows after a major crash on a system with Optane can be a huge headache, the Intel support forums are full of people seeking support with this exact problem. Getting Optane to work at all makes up a huge chunk of their support as well.

I am an Optane user but can verify that they are really just tech preview toys. The cheaper ones are too small and not really that fast compared to NVMe and the really great ones are way too expensive. I cannot recommend them at this time to anyone other than enthusiasts that like to play with new tech for fun.

I found this thread looking for my original post about it.
 
I'm trying to get at least one major tech channel to cover it so people know that it is an option.
 
The system this is running on has been up now for a few weeks and has been through a cumulative update without issue.
 
There seems to be no negative side effects from this setup and the performance is outstanding.

I posted a clip of the system booting over at guru3d:

https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/tried-something-interesting-with-a-u-2-900p-and-it-worked.419655/

Technology improvements have pushed RAID to the corporate sector almost exclusively. NAS technology connected over USB C, thunderbolt or 10 gig ethernet seems to be the way large/redundant storage for home users is going.
 
Yes but really good RAID cards (supporting both lots of RAM cache and SSD caching with battery backup) are pretty expensive. I have used Areca cards and they do offer crazy fast performance but you also end up with crazy long boot times as the card initializes.
 
You are in control over this. You can set the SSD to read cache, write cache or both.
 
It helps a lot but nothing compares to a RAID card with a large RAM cahce when it comes to dealing with small files.

The Areca card I have is 100% compatible with windows 10 but it is discontinued and was more than $1000 new.

One thing to keep in mind is that RAID 1 does distribute reads meaning that you exchange 50% of your drive capacity for redundancy and faster read speed. 4 HDDs in RAID 10 would give you read speed close to 4 drives in RAID 0.

Perhaps getting a SATA SSD and something like Primo cache would be the most cost effective solution in your case. The 860 EVO is a really good SSD for the price.

A cheap (relatively) NVMe SSD for booting can be paired with expanding storage as your needs go. Start off with a smaller (relatively) SATA SSD and migrate your data to larger and larger SATA drives as your needs grow. Its a simple process as your OS is on a drive you wont be changing. You can research any apps that actually perform better on a NVMe drive and install those there, keep all of the other apps on the SATA drives.