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Special Forums Hardware Question on SATA 300 vs SATA 600 Post 302512398 by Puddles187 on Saturday 9th of April 2011 11:23:38 PM

04-10-2011

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Here's what I've found with my own personal experiences.
Most disc drives don't get out of the MB/s R/W range, so changing the amount of GB/s isn't all that big of a deal. Even the two SATA 300 discs that I have in a RAID 0 partition average about 32 MB/s R/W. and my SSD averages at about 220 MB/s, newegg goes up to about 420.

And from what I've learned with my new SSD, there is a very noticeable performance increase. VERY noticeable. Even though my SSD is a lower-end model in SATA 300 (bought from newegg at about $80) it's drastically reduced my boot time (if it's the only disc in the system, I'll get to that later, though) and the load times for most programs are nonexistant, even those on my storage drives (unless they've spun down).

The only problem that I've had with my SSD so far is with booting. The time has increased in my main computer (where it's kept) by a significant amount, however, I'm going to need to blame myself for this one, and Microsoft. You need to have your drives in AHCI mode to enable TRIM support (VERY useful for SSDs) and I want my drives in RAID, dang it! So, I need to go through Microsoft's built-in RAID drivers... Meaning that it has to declare an entire terabyte array every time it boots up.

In short: SSDs; worth every penny. SATA 600; not so much.

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raidfile.conf

RAIDFILE.CONF(5)						    Box Backup							  RAIDFILE.CONF(5)

NAME

       raidfile.conf - Userland RAID for Box Backup

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/box/raidfile.conf

DESCRIPTION

       The raidfile.conf is usually generated by raidfile-config(8) but may be manually edited if the store locations move or if more than one
       disc set is required.

       discX
	   Specifies a set of discs.

	   SetNumber
	       The set number of the RAID disc, referenced by each account.

	   BlockSize
	       The block size of the file system (usually 2048). Under BSD with FFS, set this to your file system's fragment size (most likely an
	       8th of the block size).

	   Dir0
	       The first directory in the RAID array.

	   Dir1
	       The second directory in the RAID array. If you do not wish to use the built-in RAID functionality, this field should be set to the
	       same as Dir0. You should not use the built-in RAID if you have a hardware RAID solution or if you're using another type of software
	       RAID (like md on Linux).

	   Dir2
	       The third directory in the RAID array. The same notes that apply to Dir2 also apply to Dir3.

FILES

       /etc/box/raidfile.conf

SEE ALSO

       raidfile-config(8), bbstored.conf(5)

AUTHORS

       Ben Summers

       Per Thomsen

       James O'Gorman

Box Backup 0.11 						    10/28/2011							  RAIDFILE.CONF(5)