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time for a super crazy raid testing setup going on so thing that I got going on so here I have seven Seagate Barracuda 3 terabyte desktop drives and I have one Samsung 512 gig 830 series SSD so what I'm going to be doing with these is I have a new raid card here from Adaptec this is their 6800 5tq so it includes a super capacitor or whatever it is they call it basically it's it's kind of like a battery backup in that it will allow anything that is cached to be written but it is not an actual battery so it's a slightly different technology one thing to be careful of with these things is you don't want to plug them in or unplug them when they are charged they ship discharge so you can plug them in before you install it but just be aware of that you can mess stuff up so there's the raid card there this supports adapt x max cache 2.0 so the difference between max cache and max cache 2.0 is that max cache 2.0 supports random SSDs it also supports much larger SSDs and consumer technologies like Intel SRT so I want to take this massive raid array I'm going to do the whole thing and raid 0 striped so that means there will be no fault tolerance but we will be getting pretty much as much performance as you can get from a single single raid card with a reasonable number of gods I mean even this number of guys is kind of unreasonable so this 512 gig cash will be cashing 21 terabytes of mechanical storage I want to test this we're going to have an upcoming NCIX tech tips on this I want to test this against some sort of more modern configurations to see what we can potentially do with the future of storage compared to a single SSD today a single hard drive today or a hybrid solution like a momentous XT today so here I'm configuring my mash max cache SSD caching so I've added one SSD to the pool you can obviously add as many SS as you want to well no I think it's actually got a limit whatever it's done now so here you can see my finished configuration I've got my raid zero set up with my hat raid zero cache with nineteen plus terabyte so it's 21 terabytes depending on how you measure it on focus please wait 0 okay and then I've got my SSD set up as a cache so I am ready to run some performance min performance benchmark so I'm going to be using PC mark and doing several runs because I'm going to be comparing it against some other configurations to see how it then how it's how it performs at first and then how performs in subsequent runs with the caching enabled as the controller learns so stay tuned for the NCIX tech tips on that and thanks for checking out this configuration process for Mac's cache 2.0 so the 8 drives hooked up to the Adaptec controller or these 8 these 8 right here are in raid 6 on the arica controller and I might as well benchmark that while we're at it just for comparison and then these two are just a raid 1 for the OS backup for Windows Home Server so don't forget to subscribe - tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos oh actually here's one more thing guys sorry as I'm getting into my benchmarking here I noticed something cool so that is that it actually gives you a readout of the the overall usage of your raid array which is very cool so I can actually monitor how much the SSD cache is affecting how things go in fact there's the DRAM statistics i/o and max cache statistics right there very cool stuff