Purely out of curiosity, I am on a quest to build out the fastest build machine for cheap. The software I build takes about 3-4 hours to build on a mid-range Core i7 2600 with conventional hard drives. I want to get this down to ~1hour. And I want to get this done as cheap as possible. No-shame cheap - refurbished/used preferred if cheaper.
I recently came across some Sandy Bridge Xeon ES chips on ebay for $175 for an 8 core 2.3ghz version. Grabbed a couple of those, and dropped them into a Asus Z9PED8 WS mobo with 32GiB of 1600MHz RAM split across 8 channels.
Now I am looking into options for Storage.
I need the fastest, largest solid state storage money can buy for under $500. I need at least 500 GiB of space. I will go over budget - up to $750, but it has to be worth it. Recommendations?
Right now, I am leaning towards buying a bunch(2x or 4x) of Refurb/Used ssds and RAID0'ing them together. But I don't really know what is involved. Do I need a RAID controller card, etc? The deal with TRIM + RAID?