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this video is brought to you by NCI XCOM great technology selection and service hello everyone I'm Dimitri without rockin arcs welcome to another video now we recently built this beast of a machine behind me the $3500 skylake editing PC now the important thing to notice about this machine is that we're only using install estate drives for our workflow so any of everything that's inside will be extremely fast to access and read by Adobe applications so we don't have to wait for things to load don't have to wait for things to render out and it's a very very good thing because if you know if you know anything about workflow for editing video editing fast storage is as important as your CPU and the GPU perhaps not in the final rendering output but it is very important in the actual workflow so in this video it will be my first time setting up SSDs in raid 0 which team seems to be the topic surrounding enthusiast machines only and I'm happy to say that this is finally happening with me as well so I hope you enjoyed this can be a fun one and you know it's SSDs we're talking about raid 0 array but don't you worry I have plenty of satisfying bocal Isha's bureau for your viewing pleasure so we teamed up with OCC for this project and they've provided us with three of their vector 180 SSDs that are targeted for performance workloads and enthusiast applications which for our use align perfectly well as editing drives and our new skylake editing PC these are 480 gigabyte capacities which are incredibly well priced by the way at around $200 apiece so you're looking at 42 cents per gigabyte which is an awesome value plus OCC offers a 5 year warranty which is a testament to their very much appreciated consideration for the enthusiast community and just shows the link every of these drives and in this video we'll be seeing what a performance we get with onedrive raid 0 array with two drives and just for fun triple SSDs and raid zero and just to clarify we are rate zero because I'd like to achieve the best read and write performance possible as the drives will be used for video editing plus choosing any other rate configuration means sacrificing on either speed or capacity all the OCC drives will be used as secondary storage which is separate from my main operating system drive which is this Intel 750 SSD the first thing I did after installing the drives in my case I have two of them on my back and one on the side of the case is going to the BIOS to set proper SATA mode which is under peripherals strangely with our z170 XP sli motherboard from gigabyte and there we enter a SATA configuration and instead of the ahci mode we're going to enable rate so after reboot we press ctrl I we enter into this window that shows over our connected SATA drives and here we're going to create a new raid volume going to call it vector 180 x3 to indicate three SSDs in this raid 0 array raid 0 is what we want for best speeds and make sure to select all the disks to be used in this array and select an appropriate strip size for raid 0 capacity is left at default and then we simply click create volume after which all three SSDs are part of the same array so now we boot it into Windows and I did have Windows 10 installed on my Intel 750 SSD so none of my files and anything that I work on is affected but here as you notice we opened my PC the OCZ red array is no longer found so it's no longer here but you can actually you will have to enable it so you're going to manage and this is the exact same procedure on any Windows machine so you're going to right-click your PC manage your going to Disk Management and you can see you will actually have to initialize the disk which has been created with your raid array now what we do is we go in to right-click on this portion new simple volume yes next next I'll give it to D sure volume I'm going to call this vector 180 x3 so I know that this is three SSDs in there for my rate array go to next and finish and so it's going to quick format it and bam so here we have vector the raid array that I've created and renamed show up inside here I can open it I can interact with it 1.3 terabytes of SSD incredibly fast storage now I want to do something here and test if there's any speed differences in creating a raid array in BIOS versus creating one through the software through sort of windows manage and create your own through strip volume so now we're back to the main menu of our SATA drives inside the BIOS I'm going to delete this raid volume and create one through the windows Disk Management to see if there's any speed differences in raid 0 with the three drives alright so after booting into Windows some weird thing happens so you can see a local disk F is visible I cannot access it but ask me to format it so deleting the previous raid array inside the BIOS didn't do the full job for me so what I'm gonna have to do is actually format disk now you can see all my three SSDs are in their prime States ready for new stripped volume so strip volume this is another way to create the raid array through software so you don't have to access bios and don't have to deal with any of that stuff it's easily accessible through Windows and we're going to be testing out the speeds in which we get through you know setting up raid array through software versus setting up and by us you choose the disks that you want to add to your full raid and I'm going to call it vector 180 X 3 so again perform a quick format and we're going to see what type of speeds we get so one of the advantages of creating a raid array through the windows ecosystem is the fact that the UI is slightly better you don't need any software you know you can right-click and you can change what you want you what type of raid you'd like whereas with the BIOS setting it's a little bit more complicated a little more Columba some but it still does the exact same thing and so now we have our new grade the rain created the right zero with three drives 1.3 terabytes of incredibly fast storage and let's see if there's any speed differences in creating one through windows versus one through the bios well here are the speed results with the raid 0 array using all three drives comparing performance of an array created inside the bios versus the one created inside the windows disk management and notice the much higher sequential read performance in an array created inside the bios which is a very important observation for moving massive files in the end i went back to the bios to create a raid 0 array for only two drives because I needed a separate drive for Adobe media cache files and also scratch disk so when the dhobi tries to access those files it does not interfere with the read or write performance on the main separate project drive and as far as speeds go for this raid 0 array for two drives I'm getting over one gigabyte per second in sequential read and write performance which I'm very happy about and compare that to the performance of a single vector 180 SSD so you can see the array performs twice as fast for my project disks versus the cache drive now so the reason why I finalize my configuration with a raid 0 array on two SSDs and left one separate is because I want to protect my data in case anything happens with the raid because in raid 0 if anything happens with one of the drives you lose all information and I don't want to do that because my raid 0 array will be my projects file so anytime that I need to access this information through Adobe it would be you know the read and write speeds are double as fast versus the single drives and that's why I have the vector 180 cache SSD so it's a separate this D the dedicated for backup files and for all the cache information so I hope you enjoyed this video I'm really happy with the way things turned out you know having a separate raid 0 array with two drives and then the separate cache drive just so that I have some backup and you know it's actually very beneficial for Adobe to access separate Drive for your cash versus your main workflow drive and it's I'm happy with how the actual speeds of raid zero has benefited using the BIOS rate versus the windows rate and it's a very strange thing how there is that slight speed difference and speed advantage and setting up things in rate 0 through bios versus Windows I'm going to go back to editing this exact video on this machine right now now I've noticed a massive improvement in loading projects that are super large so on average each single 4k video project file that I work with for our hard work max productions is about 60 gigabytes so opening up a project with 60 gigabytes of footage inside a premier timeline is very demanding so that really requires a lot of reads through in Premiere and so having this raid 0 array for Adobe to access all these files has been incredibly beneficial whereas previously all my footage was on hard disks so it took forever to load things but now it's literally just a click away and everything is loaded super quick and before I skedaddle make sure to check out all the videos we've produced regarding the insane sky like editing PC behind me all the parts the build log the performance and gaming if you're interested it will all be linked in the description below I'm Dimitri with our Canucks thanks so much for watching we'll see you in the next one