Raid0 HDDs vs AMD StoreMI

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Hi There

 

I have been was looking into building a new system lately featuring an AMD cpu.

 

with storage I was going to have a 512 SSD, media live on a NAS (as it does now), and have my steam and other cloud based game libraries sitting off a HDD. To speed thing up I was thking Raid 0 for 2 or 3 HDDs. 

 

Does anyone know if this would be better then an ‘Optain’ solution?

[MadPistol]

Caching with an SSD, either with StoreMI or a third party solution like PrimoCache would yield better results in the long run. The main reason for this is that a game accesses a very small amount of its overall data, and if it gets used a lot, it benefits response to Cache it in Solid State Media. With RAID solutions, specifically striping, there are a couple of disadvantages.

 

1. If one drive dies, everything dies (obviously, mirroring is the exception)

2. Latency/slower response of a spinning disk cannot be overcome by adding additional drives. You will always have seek times.

 

With a Caching drive, only the most used items are stored there, and latency/response and load times are greatly reduced.

 

Caching is the better solution if you're using spinning media.