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I have a somewhat aged PERC 5i with a 512MB cache which I pulled from my old (somewhat power hungry) file server and replaced with a slower but more bulletproof RAIDZ2 setup.
I also have 3 750GB Spinpoint F1s that have been lying in a cupboard for some time.
I was wondering whether there would be any value in replacing the 1TB WD Black secondary drive (for most installed programs) in my main PC with an array of the 3 Spinpoint F1s cached with a SanDisk ReadyCache 32GB SSD. The reviews for the latter are generally decent, and unlike the Corsair solution it does support RAID arrays, though I can't find any benchmarks relating to that.
In short, would I be wasting electricity using these various pieces of old hardware in this manner or would there be a significant bump in real world performance? I couldn't give a damn about theoretical throughput but better performance from games and the Adobe Creative Suite would be nice.
I also have 3 750GB Spinpoint F1s that have been lying in a cupboard for some time.
I was wondering whether there would be any value in replacing the 1TB WD Black secondary drive (for most installed programs) in my main PC with an array of the 3 Spinpoint F1s cached with a SanDisk ReadyCache 32GB SSD. The reviews for the latter are generally decent, and unlike the Corsair solution it does support RAID arrays, though I can't find any benchmarks relating to that.
In short, would I be wasting electricity using these various pieces of old hardware in this manner or would there be a significant bump in real world performance? I couldn't give a damn about theoretical throughput but better performance from games and the Adobe Creative Suite would be nice.