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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Haus of Tech Support > RAID or other solution to I/O bandwidth woes?
 
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Cabbages and Kings
Aug 25, 2004


Shall we be trotting home again?
I've got this motherboard:

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128835

I've had issues in the past with having a bunch of I/O happening to a single 2GB WD drive, but only when I was doing stuff like writing 5 files at 10mbit/sec at once.

I just got gigabit internet, and the second I experimented with a large file download, it went up to 350mb/sec before Windows 10 started throwing I/O errors at me.

I think the hard drive I have is a piece of poo poo that I need to replace, but I'd like some suggestions about what my disk setup should optimally be; goal is to be able to run, say, a bunch of torrents while also doing other things on the computer. If there are single drives I can buy that will be more resilient than the refurbished bullshit I've got now, I am happy to start there -- but if I really need to be looking at doing some kind of RAID setup then I don't mind buying a few drives and a RAID controller.

Specific hardware suggestions are appreciated!

edit: lol holy poo poo am I out of date. It looks like the thing to do is buy a PCIe m.2 NAND controller and a couple 1TB m.2 drives, does that sound right?

Cabbages and Kings fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Oct 12, 2018

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Zogo
Jul 29, 2003

 Yea, don't do RAID in this instance. You'll get much better performance with large SSD drives compared to an older HD.

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