Madshrimps.be: Raid 0 Stripe Size Comparison

January 15, 2010 Matt Bidinger News, System & Components 2

Jmke over at Madshrimps.be has put the question of optimal Raid 0 stripe size for SSDs in its final resting place. His article published today summarizes the results of over 1200 benchmark runs!

Madshrimps.be:

We all know that two is better than one, we have dual core CPUs, dual GPU video cards, and if you really want to get the most out of your storage, a set of SSDs in RAID will boost your performance noticeably. We tested 6 different RAID stripe sizes and 3 different RAID configs in 4 different storage benchmarks, some synthetic, others real world operations. More than 1200 benchmarks results summed up in a few charts.

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A good read, and really dedicated work running the tests! Thanks jmke!

–I.M.O.G.

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EarthDog

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#1 Jan 19, 2010

Cool!!!

I wonder why HDTune was used seeing as how the results are not consistent and tend to be inaccurate... Unless there is a newer version out???

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#2 Jan 19, 2010

Great article! Although, it has more graphs than I care to look at hahaha. Plus, the conclusion is nice and straight forward. Tells you exactly what you want to know.

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