Test Controller: Adaptec RAID 5805
Although DV Nation asked us to test the Memoright drives with an Areca controller because of their excellent throughput, we used Adaptec’s new 5805 Unified Serial RAID controller, as it turned out to be the better product at this point in time. While the management software is more advanced, we found this product to deliver both excellent throughput and I/O performance (which hasn’t always been the case with Adaptec’s devices in the past).
Adaptec’s RAID 5805 is one of the fastest and most powerful Unified Serial RAID controllers (for SAS and SATA) available today.
Test HDDs: 2.5” Seagate Savvio 10K.2 and 3.5” WD Raptor WD1500
Seagate Savvio 10K.2: 10,000 RPM, 2.5” and a SAS interface. These are excellent server drives for high-density storage applications.
We decided to not only compare the Memoright flash SDD to the entire range of mechanical and flash-based competitors, but to also go one more step. We used four 2.5” Seagate Savvio 10K.2 enterprise SAS drives and four 3.5” Western Digital WD1500 Raptor drives, both of which can be considered as best in their class. The Raptor still is an excellent system drive for enthusiast systems (although its successor, the VelociRaptor, is considerably better) and Seagate’s Savvio 10K.2 is a backbone for high-density storage servers. We compared four of each in a RAID 0 setup against four Memoright Flash SSDs in a RAID 0 setup to show the maximum performance potential.
Although beaten by its predecessor, the good-old 3.5” Raptor by Western Digital still is a de-facto standard for enthusiasts and entry-level servers.
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At that price I will stick to my hard drives. These SSD devices have a long ways to go before the average pc user feels the need to dish out hard earned money for them.
It's good to see that SSd drives are at the point that HDD were about 10/15 years ago. Give these another 10 years (if even) and we'll be laughing about how we used to use HDD for storage.
should of tested RAID 5 as well and maybe raid 1, but i guess the numbers would of been lower mosty due to the fact the RAID card mite not be able to keep up with the SSD drives lol
i think ssd drives will not take 10 years to come top dog in the hard disk market think more like 3-5 years maybe even less
I was under the impression that SSD are limited in the number of times you can perform write operations to them. I'm sure that I read an article that said a SSDs life expectancy would severely diminish with an OS continually writing and rewriting temp files to it?
Two years max before all enthousiasts have an SSD drive in their PC's. Not to replace the HDDs, but a small one (32GB or 64GB sounds about right) just for the OS, applications and some games.