Aventum II Questions

Just got an Aventum with 4x980s, Rampage V, and Hydrolux for all the cards and the cpu. Very quiet and cool. Get up to 146fps in Starcraft II. No raid, I intend to double up on what I have and add 2 more since there is so much space and then try.
It is very big. Sometimes DS answers here or you can call them.  And there are very knowledgeable people here also. Good luck.

Hi John,

That is going to be a great computer. Your best source of information will be DS technical people.

What is your application that you want a big RAID array. If you go RAID you need to understand your system as it can get complicated. RAID 0 is fastest but you can lose data and not a good way to go. I don't think you want to use the RAID control on the motherboard. I understand it is software controlled in the bios. I think there is a better way but I don't know what it might be. DS can help you with that.

It sounds like you want to RAID the OS. RAIDing the OS may be a bad idea. I think you would get as good or better OS performance with the OS on a single SSD. The OS is made up of a lot of very small files and while RAID may improve read/write times I don't think it helps seek times. Unfortunately I think seek times, with the OS, will control the over all speed. Especially if the strips on your RAID are much larger than the files.

I am sorry I can't help you more but I have been away from this for a while and not up to speed. I would be interested in what you are going to use your machine for. That will impact your setup.

Frank