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I look forward to doing a raid 0 on sata 6gbs bus with an i7 driving it.. 1 day when i stop spending cash on telescopes  |
The crazy thing is that the current top-of-the-line SSDs peak at about 80% saturation of a SATA 6 Gbps bus... RAID 0 would easily saturate it (unless you had two separate SATA controllers).
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My work still insists that a single mechanical HDD is fast enough and the cpu needs to be upgraded instead. *rollseyes*
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Well... if they upgraded to an SSD then the CPU would probably "need" to be upgraded ;-)
The funny thing is that since getting an SSD, my computer actually runs HOTTER than ever before - because the CPU and GPU are no longer sitting idle during batch processing.
Seriously though, you could demonstrate to your work that the HDD is the bottleneck (and not the CPU) by profiling a typical task using Activity Monitor (Mac) or Task Manager / Performance Monitor (Win). Then again, I've had people argue to my face that their CPU is "too slow" even when I showed them the utilisation graph that stays below 10%
