 Time for a super crazy raid testing setup going on. So thing that I got going on. So here I have seven Seagate Barracuda 3TB desktop drives and I have one Samsung 512G 830 series SSD. So what I'm going to be doing with these is I have a new raid card here from Adaptech. This is their 6805TQ. So it includes a super capacitor or whatever it is they call it. Basically 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 discharged 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 Adaptech's Maxcash 2.0. So the difference between Maxcash and Maxcash 2.0 is that Maxcash 2.0 supports random SSDs. It also supports much larger SSDs than consumer technologies like Intel SRT. So I want to take this massive raid array. I'm going to do the whole thing in raid zero 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 raid card with a reasonable number of drives. I mean even this number of drives is kind of unreasonable. So this 512 gig cache will be caching 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 Momentus XT today. So here I'm configuring my Maxcash SSD caching. So I've added one SSD to the pool. You can obviously add as many SSDs as you want to the pool. 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 0 setup with my RAID 0 cache with 19 plus terabytes so that's 21 terabytes depending on how you measure it. Come on focus please. RAID 0, okay and then I've got my SSD setup as a cache so I am ready to run some performance benchmarks. I'm going to be using PCMark and doing several runs because I'm going to be comparing it against some other configurations to see how it performs at first and then how it 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 Maxcash 2.0. So the eight drives hooked up to the Adaptek controller are these eight. These eight right here are in RAID 6 on the Eureka 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 for the Linus Tech Tips from Unboxing 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 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 Maxcash statistics right there. Very cool stuff.