Question Question about storageMi

Joshjetski

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I have just built my pc (I'm relatively new to this sort of thing) and I want to speed up my 2tb hard drive by running 2 120gb ssds in raid 0 then use storage Mi to speed up my hard drive with the ssds...
Any thing I should know or any sort of incompatibility issues or anything...
(I am aware of the double chance of data loss with raid 0)
 

VirtualLarry

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My understanding (from reading about, not from actually using, though I hope I'll be able to pick up an X470 mobo to try it out myself soon), is that StoreMI has certain specific requirements for the "Fast Tier". I don't believe that you can use multiple SSDs in RAID, as a "Fast Tier", only, individual drives.
 

Joshjetski

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Sorry, the ssds are arriving tomorrow but they are bx500 I think from crucial
Ryzen 5 2600 120mm watercooling
16gb ddr4 just 2133mhz
Currently I have a Radeon 6870 but im selling my laptop for the last bit of cash for a Vega 56
Seagate Barracuda 7200 I believe 2tb
And a gaming carbon pro b450
If I missed anything then let me know...
 

daveybrat

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The Crucial BX500 series are their low-end budget drives with no DRAM buffer.

For the cost of those 2 you could have bought a 250GB NVMe drive that would be insanely faster than those in raid.
 

Joshjetski

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Can you send me a link or an example, however I agree that you can get a faster nvme drive for the same price but it would only be faster by 100 mbs and that would be theoretical anyway...
The point of me (as a young teenager) building my own pc is to learn, I think that using software and different types of hardware will teach me more than reading on things...
Sorry if this doesn't make much sense I'm currently ill and not particularly focused...
 

WT

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I just set up a StoreMI on my build 2 days ago. I have a 512GB HP EX920 NVMe as a boot drive (Asus Prime x470 Pro - love its heatsink for the NVMe drive) and a 4TB WD Red as storage. The Red was an 'upgrade' from a Seagate 2TB Constellation that was faster than the Red, but good God it was LOUD !! So in an effort to speed things up for the spinner, I added a Team Group L5 240GB SSD I picked up on the Egg for $30 as a 'tier' drive. Very easy to set up the software - just created a non-bootable pairing of the two drives, then the last part of the setup asked if I wanted to devote 2GB of system RAM to the setup as an aditional caching layer. I figured, ehhh, why not ? I don't push my system very hard at all, but I'd prefer to touch this setup for at least a few years.

Edit: added a run I just took to show what to expect. My drive went from a 108MB/Sec to 1800+. And that is exactly why I wanted to give this software a try ! But to be honest, benchmarks are one thing, a seat of the pants increase in system performance may not be noticeable. My boot NVMe reads at 3100MB/sec, but it doesn't boot into Windows any faster by my count.
 

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