ASUS Xtreme Design competition-

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Using the ASUS P7P55D Premium motherboard with SATA/6Gbps technology,
I setup the system using 6 or 7 SSDs in RAID-0.
Not including the faster Samsung SSD, which is being utilized on one of the SATA/6Gbps ports as a boot/OS drive.
The system has surpassed 700 MB/sec in disk reads and 500 MB/sec in disk writes (albeit in slightly different setup/configuration).

Asymmetrical/Software RAID:


Onboard Hardware RAID:

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!! YOU WON THE COMPETITION! SEE THE FRENCH NEWSPAPER ARTICLE IN A WELL KNOW FRENCH ONLINE TECH MAGAZINE ABOUT YOUR BUILD!

Hi, I was reading the latest news about CES 2010 in one of my favorite online french magazine and What did I saw: YOUR RIG! Immediately I remembered your Worklog here, and I think you'll be happy to know that french journalists talk about you

Here is the link to the website:

French version: CES 2010 - Boitier compact watercoolé et incluant 8 SSD !

English version (google translation): PC World France - CES 2010 - Compact and including 8 watercool SSD!

And a screen shot of the original artcile (in french, for english click on the link here upper):

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Thanks for the newsposting, Scaniris!

My 1st place prize (besides the awesome CES trip- THANKS ASUS!) included a Maximus III GENE motherboard,
which I have used to replace the P7P55 Premium which was part of the original contest.

Changed my case theme to black and red now, added some components and fastening parts..
Here's some progress shots on Phase 2 of this project...
I might be somewhat overkill for a i7-860 and GTX260(55nm),
but at least I will be all set if ASUS decides to make/send me a Rampage III GENE and GTX480, *hinthint*





Also to note:
-It's damn small and compact for what it has in it, I love it.
-The 2.5" SSDs still need to be mounted somewhere, good thing is that they are much smaller than 3.5" HDD..
Might use a blank PCIe PCB, or something to mount them to.
-Still need to buy some black(red?) cable sleeving
-Might still integrate a NZXT Sentry 2 LCD fan controller into the side panel
-Will probably end up painting the yellow stripes on the Antec PSU
-I'm probably at a ratio of 80:1 for time spent building this project vs time actually using the components.