Questions about Correct SSD RAID0 Setup for Editing

[henry66]

Hello beautiful people of the interwebs!

Quick question here.

Current Setup:

1 x Corsair Force 3 SSD 250GB (OS, programs installed, 2 partitions)

Upgraded Setup:

1 x Corsair Force 3 SSD 250GB
2 x Samsung 840 EVO SSD 250GB (Will be a RAID0 Array)

My Question:

I am doing this upgrade to increase rendering speed in sony vegas and other editing programs.
Shall I Clone the data from the Corsair SSD to the new RAID0 Samsung SSDs (Thats including the sony vegas installed on that), I assume this will boost OS speed, programs, games, etc.
If I use the above method, I would probably use the Corsair Force 3 SSD to have the Video Footage saved, but would that eliminate the speed benefit (as it uses the files from the single SSD)??

Option 2:

I keep the current OS and programs and everything on the Corsair SSD and simply use the RAID0 setup to save the video files, to be used in Sony Vegas that is installed on the Single Corsair SSD. So it can essentially load the videos as fast as possible from the RAID0.

Option 2b:
I keep the Samsung SSDs as extra storage and only install Sony Vegas on it. should Editing Software be installed on the same drive that also holds the Video footage?


Bit lost here, anyone know the answer ?


Thank you lots !!

 

[Dereck47]

Bit lost here, anyone know the answer ?

Option 2

FYI, 2 SSDs in RAID-0 will only improve game-load and level-load times. It won't improve FPS.

Your money is probably better spent upgrading your graphics card.
2 in CrossFire or 2 in SLI maybe?

 

[henry66]

Thank you for your answer Dereck, I know that improving storage space only increases loading times. But I work with Video Editing Software and 3D Rendering Software such as Cinema 4D. I need very fast storage speed to boost rendering performance in those applications.
So to recap, I should simply add the 2 SSDs as RAID0, and just have it as extra storage on which I save the video files on to be edited ?

 

[Dereck47]

So to recap, I should simply add the 2 SSDs as RAID0, and just have it as extra storage on which I save the video files on to be edited ?

Correct

 

[henry66]

I went into the BIOS (Sabertooth X79), changed mode from AHCI to RAID and rebooted. Upon seeing the Intel Rapid Storage thing I did Ctrl+I

I went to configure the 2 samsung SSDs as a RAID0 drives, did it, rebooted. Once in Windows there was no volume or additional drives. In fact, the other 1TB inernal HDD didnt show up either aymore. I then downloaded and installed the Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver from their website, installed, rebooted, still nothing.

Now I changed back to AHCI mode, any ideas ???/

 

[Dereck47]

Go into Windows Disk Management and see if the RAID array shows up there.
If it does then initialize the array, Quick format it, and assign it a drive letter. It will then be ready to use.

 

[henry66]

Will that also bring back the other drive? The 1TB Internal drive connected to a 3GB/s Sata Port (also part of the Intel chipset), The only drives that were recognised were the external usb drives and the internal OS SSD on the Marvel chips 6GB/s Sata Port

 

[henry66]

When I want to initialize the two disk drives in the Disk Management Program, it shows up as 442,50GB unallocated, surely it should have half the capacity as I told the Intel Chipset BIOS that those 2 drives are supposed to be RAID 0.

Any ideas ?

 

[Dereck47]

Your capacity is correct. You do not get half capacity for RAID-0; you get half for RAID-1.

 

[popatim]

Hate to bust your bubble but you have the completely wrong drive setup for rendering. Right now you have the raid0 pair trying to read and write att he same time during rendering which is detrimental to what you want as it basically halves (or worse) the overall speed.

Normally you want individual drives for OS, Source, Scratch, and Destination. If your rendering speed is then limited by your drives then you start raid0'ing the Source, Scratch, and Destination. You'd need a real beefy cpu to need raid0 ssd's though.

 

[henry66]

Hate to bust your bubble but you have the completely wrong drive setup for rendering. Right now you have the raid0 pair trying to read and write att he same time during rendering which is detrimental to what you want as it basically halves (or worse) the overall speed.

Normally you want individual drives for OS, Source, Scratch, and Destination. If your rendering speed is then limited by your drives then you start raid0'ing the Source, Scratch, and Destination. You'd need a real beefy cpu to need raid0 ssd's though.

My drive setup is the following:

1 SSD with OS, Editing Software installed
2 External USB Storage ~ 3TB with Raw Video Material
1 Interal HDD 2TB Music and other content
2 SSDs RAID0 450GB Project Media Files transferred from cameras or mass storage before editing

Workflow: Copy to Raid0 Array, load into Editing Software, rendering to OS SSD Desktop

 

[henry66]

Guys, this doesnt seem to be as easy as it seemed...

I have one problem now, when I cold start the computer, ALL Intel Sata ports don't work, none of the HDDs, SSDs (RAID) and Optical drives attached dont get recognised.
When I enter (JUST ENTER) the bios during startup, select discard changes and exit, it will actually boot normally and recognise them.

Now that is odd, any ideas how to fix that? Keep in mind that the Marvell controller, the one which has the single SSD with OS attached, functions without issues through all this.

thanks for your help