Comments on: Which is quicker - A RAID Array or a Raptor?

By: theDuck

theDuck — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:14:42 +0000

Your wish is my command Mikael. From pressing the button to the actual desktop (user selection off) is 23 seconds with the RAID, and 38 secs with the Raptor.

BUT - and I repeat BUT - that’s with a brand new clean install. The RAIDS tend to get a bit segmented after time (from experiene) and you should defrag regularly.

By: Mikael Nilsson

Mikael Nilsson — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:03:31 +0000

The test seems really interesting. Couldn’t you please have the same test and meassure the startup time of Windows?

By: angryblue

angryblue — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:49:42 +0000

the new version of wordpress isn’t compatible with Blix. Or at least, the new gallery feature won’t work with blix.

By: Joe M.

Joe M. — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:47:39 +0000

Great article. I am a big fan of using the RAID array and currently run that in all of my server setups. I tried going with Raptor at one point and just felt like it was lacking from what I am used to. Nice write up. (EDIT:- I removed your commercial link - please respect the blog and don’t drop off topic links - doc)

By: Jenny W

Jenny W — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:14:35 +0000

Whoo Hoo! Found your blog! Also found your other site. not the one with the undies though…. I got a blog too, but it’s about knitting. I didn’t tell you that’s what I do when I saw you last night did I? Whoops, hope you’ll still come ’round for dinner sat and not be scared off by that little admission! Was fantastic catching up last night after all these years. Sat should be even better. Great bachelor pad by the way - can’t wait to check it out for real.

Love peace and joy
Jen

By: Suresh M.Sc

Suresh M.Sc — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:40:11 +0000

I think you are giving valuable info. I’m also from India. Math teacher. Helping students to do their homework.

By: NewAgeAlchemist

NewAgeAlchemist — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:07:16 +0000

Just letting you know the BlitzKrieg downloads require you include BX_functions.php in the function.php for the sidebar widget to activate in WP2.5

I’m still playing with it, so I’ll let you know if I find anything else. Great work on it though.

By: TIm

TIm — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:54:38 +0000

I want one of these!
http://viroptics.blogspot.com/2007/09/fusionio-next-big-thing-in-storage.html

By: theDuck

theDuck — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:55:25 +0000

That’s interesting John - do you mean USB memory sticks or actual sticks of RAM? I remember reading about a company offering a battery backed up device you could plug sticks of normal DRAM into and use it to run your OS… would certainly be intereting… cripes, I’ve got about 100 PC133 sticks lying around.. I should try it when I get one of those elusive round tuits

I suspect we’ll all be laughing at the effort we went to to squeeze out a few extra % speed in a few years time - fast storage will be the next big advance I believe.

But in the meantime - a RAID of Raptors is the closest thing to heaven I’ve heard of…

Cheers,

By: JohnMu

JohnMu — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:07:45 +0000

I moved from a SATA RAID to a set of 3 Raptors last year. Wow, the speed is amazing. The older generation of Raptors was fairly loud, but the new ones are pretty quiet.

Having moved almost all large files to a NAS, I don’t really need lots and lots of capacity in my system.

I can’t wait for RAM drives to come down more in price. I tried a RAID of memory sticks, but even with fast memory sticks it’s still terrible (not to mention the limited capacity since you are mostly limited to the number of real ports… . It looked pretty cool though, lol.