NLH Review: "Battleship Mtron" 9x Mtron RAID-0

Capsaicin · Post by **Capsaicin** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:49 am

http://www.nextlevelhardware.com/storage/battleship/

frostedflakes · Post by **frostedflakes** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 2:59 pm

Pretty crazy that 9x high-performance SSDs brought those RAID controllers to their knees. What I found really interesting, though, was that in real-world applications performance doesn't scale well at all beyond two drives. CPU must become the limiting factor once you hit about 250MBps throughput and ~0.1ms access time.

Moogles · Post by **Moogles** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:40 am

Which God do I sacrifice my first born son to?

This is truly incredible, and I can't wait for these to enter the realm of affordability. Soon, hopefully. Very soon.

Wibla · Post by **Wibla** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:07 pm

Very impressive, but I cant afford 6TB in SSD's just yet, so I'll stick to my 3.5" SATA drives for now, pushing a more "sane" 350MB/s read and 120-130MB/s write speeds on 9x500GB on a slow 3ware

andyb · Post by **andyb** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 4:05 pm

theiw website is now working again

Those drives performance is pretty sick where IOPs and seek time are king, but I wont be buying an SSD anytime soon, mostly because I dont have the cash to spend.

I love the fact that they had to upgrade their RAID card because it was bottlenecking 5 drives, and the upgrade bottlenecked 9 drives.....

Awsome.

Andy