OCZ eSATA flash drives in raid 0?

[Nairi]

anyone think its worth it to raid these things? i seen some benchmark and they hold up their own compared to the standard harddrives. they also have way better access time.

the 8GBs are 39$ EACH, was thinking of getting 4 of these in raid 0. 8o ???????

[Catamer]

you didn't put a link to the extact drive but I looked something up on newegg and read some of the product review OCZ esata 16g
I wasn't sure if that was the drive you were talking about or not.
it appears from these reviews that you have to power the drives from a USB connector and there seemed to be some contention as to wheter or not the drive would just use the USB conenctor or th eSATA connector for the data transfers.( since it can use either with the eSATA being faster )

I would be afraid that 4 of them would over power your USB power supply unless you have some type of external powered USB hub.

because of how it gets power, I would not suggest doing this.

[Nairi]

So like i bought 4 of the 8GBs and put them as raid 0, im getting transfer rates up 200-500MBps on file transfers. I got 4 wow sessions loading the data of the drive and have no load issues.

is there any good software to futher test this? like i/o, access time etc.

[Hairball]

Why did you choose these over the 60gb $150 drives? (same brand I believe)

[Nairi]

messing around ^^

[wowphreak]

anyone think its worth it to raid these things? i seen some benchmark and they hold up their own compared to the standard harddrives. they also have way better access time.

the 8GBs are 39$ EACH, was thinking of getting 4 of these in raid 0. 8o ???????

For 39$ I'm figuring yer thinking about getting one of those thumb drive what ever yeh call em USB basically is really slow.
Even if yeh raided a bunch together it still be slow.

There's a reason there that cheap.

"200-500MBps" ?? How about actually linking the hardware

[Nairi]

anyone think its worth it to raid these things? i seen some benchmark and they hold up their own compared to the standard harddrives. they also have way better access time.

the 8GBs are 39$ EACH, was thinking of getting 4 of these in raid 0. 8o ???????

For 39$ I'm figuring yer thinking about getting one of those thumb drive what ever yeh call em USB basically is really slow.
Even if yeh raided a bunch together it still be slow.

There's a reason there that cheap.

"200-500MBps" ?? How about actually linking the hardware

that 200-500 is file transfer with vista.
and heres the screenshot



drive info here
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227390

i don't really care if you believe me or not i just want to know of a good benchmarking software to test it out more.
also its "ESATA" not usb. can be used as usb but will be slow.

[wowphreak]

check out http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public/index.php

I think its odd that yeh gotten such high variance "200-500MBps" with the flash drives.

[confusedtx5]

SSD will do fantiastic in RAID. ive got my 64GB SSD, and I cant wait to get another and raid them. SSDs scale performance in raid much better than regular HDDs

traditionally with RAID if you have 1 HDD itll do Z amount of performance. adding a 2nd however does not give you Z x2 performance. Some applications/games will get close, sometimes you may only get 1.1x Z performance. but with SSD drives, they will get you close to 2x Z performance. Google Battleship Mtron and you'll see what i mean. they RAID 9 SSD drives together and max out the capability of the controllers (not the SSDs) a few times.