LOVED the video. Really nice system. I would like to know what you think of the RAIDR PCIe SSD. I thought it was supposed to bypass the limitations of the SATA III bandwidth.
LOVED the video. Really nice system. I would like to know what you think of the RAIDR PCIe SSD. I thought it was supposed to bypass the limitations of the SATA III bandwidth.
Thanks.Originally Posted by ElectronDF
The RAIDR is... definitely a niche product that is still slightly premature in terms of the consumer market adopting it (or having a real need for it). I actually found the product overview on NeweggTV really useful and informative and it actually helped give me the final push I needed in order to make the purchase. It does bypass the SATAIII bandwidth limitation because it's not connected via SATA, but you probably won't really need to worry about those numbers unless you've got a lot of drives connected in RAID (J.J. shows this on his Asus channel -- There are some more videos on that channel as well about the RAIDR that I didn't get a chance to watch yet).
Apparently there are benefits to using it in a UEFI boot configuration as shown in Asus's marketing video, but I've yet to try all of that UEFI stuff out just yet. I would say that I probably wouldn't buy another one of these until the market was able to offer better performance (and price) from these than they do now, because, at the moment, I can just use a RAMDrive and blow any SSD (SATA or PCIe) out of the water in terms of performance.
Don't get me wrong, I do like it and it's not like that PCIe slot on my motherboard was going to be used for anything else. I'm slowly moving my games over to it, but because I'm still wary of the Sandforce-based SSD controller, I will keep an extra backup of my game folders on an external drive as well.
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