Running 5x WoWs on a capped server using the latest intel X25 SSD

[aboron]

On a purely cost per subjective performance increase I'd have to recommend against getting the Acard 9010 for just WoW.

The access times are lightening fast across the board, but the recovery from the CCF card is uselessly slow. I did it once with my 32Gig Ram from a standard 32Gig Camera-type CCF and it took about 2 hours to fully recover.
It will, however, boot from the unit while passing through from the CCF until it comes into sync, but it means you can't really play for the first 2 hours after a power on.

All things confidered, the average wow-er would likely be happier with the flash SSD route.

I have mine set up as a data drive and use a boot time scheduled restore in windows to load an uncompressed image from my hard drive back onto it, which only takes about 10 minutes and is set to happen even before i log in as an admin level service.

I have some tests and such I will post eventually, but I'm in FL and my computer with the images is in CA and turned off right now.

[Evilseed]

I am starting to notice something really wierd on my Intel x25 (both e and ms). I'll be playing WoW on them (I broke my raid, doing singles now) and sometimes the drive will actually dissapear from my OS. For example, I have my main WoW window on my G drive. Well, suddenly windows will give me a wierd error and the G: drive dissapears completely. If I check Vista's device manager, it no longer lists it as a HDD. It is completely gone until I reboot.

I'm thinking about buying a new SATA2 controller, one that supports eSATA, and hopefully it'll end up being the issue with this system's mobo. This PC has a Striker Xtreme.

[Freddie]

Deleted, double post.

[Freddie]

All things confidered, the average wow-er would likely be happier with the flash SSD route.

Is the slow time to reload the thing the only reason you say that? If so, what if you leave your PC on most of the time and reboot only occasionally?

[aboron]

All things confidered, the average wow-er would likely be happier with the flash SSD route.

Is the slow time to reload the thing the only reason you say that? If so, what if you leave your PC on most of the time and reboot only occasionally?

Actually when I'm not on the road my desktop doesn't get turned off, so the reload speed would not be the clincher for me (and the reload is really only that slow when using the unit as a boot drive) - it's mainly the price increase from say $250 for a quality samsung 32 Gig flash SSD compared to $1200 for 32Gig on this thing is not reflected in an equivalent performance increase of even double, let alone 5x.

Edit -
That being said, if i had an infinite supply of money: I would get 4 of these, an Areca 1680 raid controller (in raid 0) and a liquid cooling solution - because they run rather hot.

[Evilseed]

I don't spose anybody here knows how to troubleshoot a drive randomly dissapearing in windows (as in, it suddenly doesn't show up in device manager) when it was there just moments ago?

[puppychow]

run "eventvwr" it'll tell you why windows removed the device usually, look in system or application.

I wouldn't bother with cheap SSD drives (OCZ, ADATA, etc) the performance gain is extremely minor over hard drives for wow. I run mine off a OCZ 64GB and it has barely made any difference in FPS.

[Evilseed]

Yea I checked out eventvwr and holy crap, it is horrible in Vista. I can't seem to find anything useful. Is there a particular section this should be at in the event viewer? Thanks in advance!

BTW, the Intel x25m/e is the own for mboxing in WoW (see my OP).

[Evilseed]

Also could anybody recommend the best eSATA 2.5" drive enclosure? I've been googling and for some reason I can't find anybody doing specs on eSATA drive enclosures. It is as if they are all the same! Maybe they are?

[Owltoid]

run "eventvwr" it'll tell you why windows removed the device usually, look in system or application.

I wouldn't bother with cheap SSD drives (OCZ, ADATA, etc) the performance gain is extremely minor over hard drives for wow. I run mine off a OCZ 64GB and it has barely made any difference in FPS.

Heh, I think I got one of those cheap SSD drives today However, I'm hoping that it's as good as Velociraptors for playing WoW and one 64 GB was cheaper than putting a couple raptors in a raid format. Hopefully increased reliability, too.

The culprit:
Single Hard Drive (64 GB Ritek RiDATA 2.5 inch SATA Gaming MLC Solid State Disk (Nearly Instant Data Access Technology)[+126])