Super RAID 3 – Gaming Performance Benefits
MSI has used the fastest possible RAID setup in our laptops – we call it Super RAID 3!
This picture shows how the different kinds of RAID setups work. Some focus on backing up data, and some focus on pure speed:
The fastest type of setup is
RAID 0, which goes for sheer blazing performance by using the combined speed of the drives, like strapping two jet engines into a car.
MSI’s Super
RAID 3 takes RAID 0 and goes crazy with it, using
4 SSDs in a striped array for sheer blazing bat-nuts 1600mb/s transfer speed.
GT80 Titan with four SSDs in Super RAID 3:
While we have no doubt that our Super RAID 3 solution is the ultimate, we want to demonstrate to you exactly how massive the gap is with the help of some ridiculous and unfair benchmarks. We took a
GE40 with a normal non-SSD 7200rpm hard drive and compared it to the
GT72 Dragon Edition and its 4 256GB SSDs using Crystal Diskmark. Extreme differences? You bet.
First up the HDD:
The drive barely manages 60mb/s read speeds and basically dies in the 4k test.
Now the Super RAID 3 results:
1.5 GB/s sequential read is absolutely insane. Booting into Windows 8? Blink and it’s done.
The SSDs in Super RAID 3
obliterated the hard drive.
Best of all with 1tb of SSDs there’s plenty of room for games, so your Battlefield 4 maps will load faster than anyone’s.
I haven't heard it myself though so I'm tempted to say not.
