fastest speed possible

intertan · February 26, 2017

Since I am saving and planning a brand new build for late this year/early next year I got looking into options for storage and have a few questions.

I am ideally looking for a raid setup using m.2 drives. prefer on board but if I can use an adapter card that would work as well. thinking min 2 drives

I went to youtube and found a holy @hit episode and how the quad socket board could have 2tb or ram. This got me thinking. If one got this board and actually had 2 tb of ram and create a ram disk of say 512gb would this be faster then following options. I am only throwing this out there as this is how big my ssd will be for my setup mentioned above.

bunch of ssd in a raid 0 configuration. I see most raid cards are a 8x pcie

I did find a quad m.2 x16 card that doesn't have built in raid but has the x16 speed still raid 0.

I know the ram disk won't keep the data after a loss of power.

at $50k this is well above my budget but doesn't hurt to research this option

Linus really needs to do a video of a few configurations like this and what can achieve the best results for price and speed.

Enderman · February 26, 2017

1) The best results for price are a sata SSD.

2) please don't waste $50k on a computer that will be outdated in a few years.

Electronics Wizardy · February 26, 2017

don't use m.2 raid or any mobo raid. Not worth it and not fast for normal use.

Id just buy a single 960 evo. You won't notice anything faster.

what are you usimg the storage for?

intertan · February 26, 2017

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

don't use m.2 raid or any mobo raid. Not worth it and not fast for normal use.

Id just buy a single 960 evo. You won't notice anything faster.

what are you usimg the storage for?

this is more of a curiosity as to how fast data can transfer

I know the z107 board has 3 m.2 drives built in. I don't need much as most of what I use in on my nas. The setup will probably have a m.2 as a boot and anything else will be a mechanical if needed. One of the perks with my company is we get to use the company discount at our supplier for computer parts. Most of the time it is cheaper but takes some time to get it in your hands. company orders it gets shipped to head office then district then my office. can take 2-3 weeks.

Electronics Wizardy · February 26, 2017

1 minute ago, intertan said:

this is more of a curiosity as to how fast data can transfer

I know the z107 board has 3 m.2 drives built in. I don't need much as most of what I use in on my nas. The setup will probably have a m.2 as a boot and anything else will be a mechanical if needed. One of the perks with my company is we get to use the company discount at our supplier for computer parts. Most of the time it is cheaper but takes some time to get it in your hands. company orders it gets shipped to head office then district then my office. can take 2-3 weeks.

if you want fast data, get a enterprise ssd. You can get drives with over 7gB/s and over 1 million iops.