[QUOTE=evan_madore;20744247][QUOTE=Flon22;20740151]Wait, I didn't think you could boot from pci-e?
Damn nice speed though[/QUOTE]
You cannot boot from these.[/QUOTE]
You can on some motherboards not all but it has to read as a raid controller which a lot of mobos accept.
To think in about 4 or 5 years that same SSD will probably be 500 dollars.
What about the built-in RAID that certain mobos have, would that work for SSDs or is it not as good as a PCI or PCI-E RAID controller?
[QUOTE=Flon22;20740151]Wait, I didn't think you could boot from pci-e?
Damn nice speed though[/QUOTE]
If your BIOS can read it as a harddrive, you can boot from it.
[QUOTE=Roast Beast;20744885]What about the built-in RAID that certain mobos have, would that work for SSDs or is it not as good as a PCI or PCI-E RAID controller?[/QUOTE]
As long as it is a SATA SSD, it should work fine. If I'm not mistaken though, a PCI controller would probably be worse, since its only limited to 133/MB a sec.
[QUOTE=Demache;20748842]As long as it is a SATA SSD, it should work fine. If I'm not mistaken though, a PCI controller would probably be worse, since its only limited to 133/MB a sec.[/QUOTE]
The second part is what I meant, I know onboard RAID would work physically but I was wondering what kind of bandwidth it provides compared to a separate card.
[QUOTE=gerbils_alt_2;20744851]To think in about 4 or 5 years that same SSD will probably be 500 dollars.[/QUOTE]
I'd say in 2 years myself.
Most people don't even need something like that. A 64gb SSD would be fine for a OS and use a regular HDD for games and all that.
[QUOTE=Roast Beast;20744885]or is it not as good as a PCI or PCI-E RAID controller?[/QUOTE]
Depends on what you need.
Onboard would be better for latency / access times (Random access) and this is what you notice when generally using an operating system. A hardware RAID card on the other hand would produce worse latency, but on the other hand it could provide battery backed-up cache memory and better reliability. (Onboard RAID controllers tend to not be as reliable when you overclock.)
Bandwidth (Sequential access) is not important for most people (Only really for those who are editing large videos, photos etc.) and you would notice the improvement of latency much more.
That box that it is in, better be made of Silver or some hard material so when it ships it doesn't just fall apart.
I guess this would be great for FRAPS couple with and i5/i7/900 Series AMD quad?
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