- Jul 11, 2011
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Hello all,
I was set on getting the Asus ROG Raidr Express 240GB PCI Express SSD card until I started reading many reviews/user comments online about how PCIe SSD cards aren't suitable for gaming/PC setups due to being good at high performance queuing but not in small data or something like that (I'm not SSD/HDD expert).
I was mainly after a very fast, bootable SSD drive that I could use from apps/windows/gaming. I wanted to use the Asus ROG Raidr for this but now I'm a little perturbed by these findings.
I watched a review comparison by Linus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAQOVI6Q1wo) where you ran tests on two PCIe cards, one a consumer card and the other an enterprise level card, as well as having a Samsung 840 Evo SSD and two other SSD's (SP920's) in Raid 0 all benchmarked against each other.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8odk7JUmPjIZC1ZOF8xaGxjM00/edit
I was quite surprised (and disappointed) to see the PCIe card score so low. However, seeing the SP920 SSD's (in Raid 0) hitting Read speeds of 1Gb/s in nearly all the tests made me wonder. These cards are really quite low-end compared to the 840 Evo (even the basic Evo). I could get 4 Samsung 840 Evo 240GB Basic SSD's and put them in Raid 0, and should get fairly decent speeds, right?
These drives are £79.99 each. If confirmed, I could have 1Tb storage and potentially faster SSD's for less than the Asus ROG Raidr.
If someone can confirm or deny my assumptions that would be great.
Thanks
I was set on getting the Asus ROG Raidr Express 240GB PCI Express SSD card until I started reading many reviews/user comments online about how PCIe SSD cards aren't suitable for gaming/PC setups due to being good at high performance queuing but not in small data or something like that (I'm not SSD/HDD expert).
I was mainly after a very fast, bootable SSD drive that I could use from apps/windows/gaming. I wanted to use the Asus ROG Raidr for this but now I'm a little perturbed by these findings.
I watched a review comparison by Linus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAQOVI6Q1wo) where you ran tests on two PCIe cards, one a consumer card and the other an enterprise level card, as well as having a Samsung 840 Evo SSD and two other SSD's (SP920's) in Raid 0 all benchmarked against each other.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8odk7JUmPjIZC1ZOF8xaGxjM00/edit
I was quite surprised (and disappointed) to see the PCIe card score so low. However, seeing the SP920 SSD's (in Raid 0) hitting Read speeds of 1Gb/s in nearly all the tests made me wonder. These cards are really quite low-end compared to the 840 Evo (even the basic Evo). I could get 4 Samsung 840 Evo 240GB Basic SSD's and put them in Raid 0, and should get fairly decent speeds, right?
These drives are £79.99 each. If confirmed, I could have 1Tb storage and potentially faster SSD's for less than the Asus ROG Raidr.
If someone can confirm or deny my assumptions that would be great.
Thanks
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