# The Power of RAID. **URL:** \ **Category:** Off-Topic\ **Created:** [June 25, 2014, 4:36am UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/the-power-of-raid/2364 "2014-06-25T04:36:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Burgmond](https://b-cdn.sourceruns.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/a9adbd/32.png) [@Burgmond](https://forums.sourceruns.org/u/Burgmond)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2014, 4:36am UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/the-power-of-raid/2364/1 "2014-06-25T04:36:40Z")
So, some crazy idiot genius got 24 SSDs and RAID-ed them. The result is a computer with a 2K transfer rate. Don’t believe me? Take a look for yourself. - [http://youtu.be/eULFf6F5Ri8](http://youtu.be/eULFf6F5Ri8) ---
**Author:** ![Cameron\_D](https://b-cdn.sourceruns.org/user_avatar/forums.sourceruns.org/cameron_d/32/251_2.png) [@Cameron\_D](https://forums.sourceruns.org/u/Cameron_D)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2014, 6:25am UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/the-power-of-raid/2364/2 "2014-06-25T06:25:28Z")
I really wonder what RAID configuration they had them in. At school I got 8 standard hard drives (as standard as 15k SAS drives are) and had them in RAID0 and was getting over 500mb/s write with 16kb blocks. I feel kinda silly for not trying larger block sizes. This was on 5+ year old hardware, surely SSDs could do better than 2gb/s (Especially across 3 RAID controllers). Although this video is from 2011, so nowadays you can probably do a lot better. ---
**Author:** ![anon3211469](https://b-cdn.sourceruns.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e9a140/32.png) [@anon3211469](https://forums.sourceruns.org/u/anon3211469)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2014, 8:19am UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/the-power-of-raid/2364/3 "2014-06-25T08:19:35Z")
And this was also done back in early 2009 (afaik, that’s the earliest I can find this video from on youtube), back before Windows 7 introduced its better support for SSDs; not to mention the actual better progress with SSDs which yielded even better speeds. I bet right now with current hardware you could get the same effects with about a third of the drives they used. ---
**Author:** ![Cameron\_D](https://b-cdn.sourceruns.org/user_avatar/forums.sourceruns.org/cameron_d/32/251_2.png) [@Cameron\_D](https://forums.sourceruns.org/u/Cameron_D)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2014, 1:01pm UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/the-power-of-raid/2364/4 "2014-06-25T13:01:51Z")
Yeah, I’d love to get half a dozen SSDs and try it nowadays. Although I might go for RAID10 for that little bit of data security 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Burgmond](https://b-cdn.sourceruns.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/a9adbd/32.png) [@Burgmond](https://forums.sourceruns.org/u/Burgmond)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2014, 6:12pm UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/the-power-of-raid/2364/5 "2014-06-25T18:12:42Z")
Pretty sure they explain their setup at the very end of the video. It just goes by quickly. ---
**Author:** ![UnrealCanine](https://b-cdn.sourceruns.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/cc9497/32.png) [@UnrealCanine](https://forums.sourceruns.org/u/UnrealCanine)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2014, 7:30pm UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/the-power-of-raid/2364/6 "2014-06-25T19:30:13Z")
does SSD RAID’s have the same problems as HHD’s ---
**Author:** ![BitRain](https://b-cdn.sourceruns.org/user_avatar/forums.sourceruns.org/bitrain/32/208_2.png) [@BitRain](https://forums.sourceruns.org/u/BitRain)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2014, 5:06pm UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/the-power-of-raid/2364/7 "2014-08-16T17:06:05Z")
> [@jackbrouno](#): > > ran defrag on a SSD. Never do this. ---
**Author:** ![Cameron\_D](https://b-cdn.sourceruns.org/user_avatar/forums.sourceruns.org/cameron_d/32/251_2.png) [@Cameron\_D](https://forums.sourceruns.org/u/Cameron_D)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2014, 11:49am UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/the-power-of-raid/2364/8 "2014-08-17T11:49:34Z")
It’s also kinda pointless to defrag RAID arrays too as they store data differently.