1* 64 or 2* 32 SSD

+1 for raid them

I'm not sure if the tool 'trim' works on raid yet, but given the ludicrous speed of raid 0 ssds it really doesn't matter much. The difference between instant and more instant is academic

I'll add a second 30gb vertex to my current one when I can afford it
 
Go to bios, select raid and reboot, on the raid manager that loads (probably intel one) create a new raid array and install windows pretty much
 
What motherboard are you using?

On a Intel board set the drives to RAID in the BIOS and choose CD ROM as first boot device, save and reboot. Just after the boot / POST screen press ctrl & I which brings up the RAID menu, select the drives you want to RAID and choose RAID 0 or 1 save and exit, before you exit place the windows disc in the drive. Then continue with install of the operating system and you may need to load the drivers for the RAID array press F6 during the load screen and hopefully your RAID array should be seen.
 
RAIDing SSDs for the most part is unlikely to see any improvement as the access times are so low, TIRM will not work in raid and OCZ drives need it to keep the speed up when they some times degrade and if cant TRIM them your RAID be slower then 1 64gb disk on its own that can be TRIM (or get an samsung/corsair that does not need it)

buy 1 SSD that you need 128gb is recommended as 64gb mite be to small for some users

what are you going to be using the pc for as SSDs are nothing like HDD and the way they perform as its the access times that keeps the response of the pc up not data rate
RAID on SSDs may be needed if your messing with lots of very big files like 5gb or so (video editing big files), you only notice RAID with SSDs if you allso have an second raid array that is running SSDs as well in raid 0 or running benchmarks

if your using windows vista or higher raid does not need any drivers only XP needs it
 
leexgx said:
RAIDing SSDs for the most part is unlikely to see any improvement as the access times are so low, TIRM will not work in raid and OCZ drives need it to keep the speed up when they some times degrade and if cant TRIM them your RAID be slower then 1 64gb disk on its own that can be TRIM (or get an samsung/corsair that does not need it)
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Lies. Multiple lies.

The most extreme examples of the raid drive slowing down don't drop it to half the original speed, so even the most abused raid 0 is faster than a pristine single drive.

You can't simultaneously argue that raid 0 is irrelevant because transfer speeds are too high, and that trim is essential to keep transfer speeds high. Make a decision, is transfer speed important or not, then stick with it.

Transfer speed is important, otherwise no one would ever use raid 0. It makes no sense whatsoever to reduce your speeds significantly because you don't think you'll notice the difference.
 
RAID 0 is around because mechanical hard disks of old were not able to produce fast enough sustained transfer rates. It's really a legacy technology dating back to servers many years ago. The only place you really see it used now is on enthusiasts PC's wanting more performance.

It's pretty pointless with SSD's, especially the faster ones unless you spend all day copying large files which is unlikely considering the space on an SSD, or because you like running benchmarks all day to post on forums.

That's about all it's good for in the modern day computer armed with SSD technology.
 
@JonJ678
we are talking about SSD in RAID not HDDS in RAID (as you pointed out your self) point to make is that if Vertex based SSDs are used, TRIM cant be used on RAID yet or may not work at all if support is not up to it so the drives may go to the same speed or lower then 1 SSD that can be trimed and there is no point in RAIDing an 200mb/s device with 1ms< speeds as actions are done very Right away (any delay is not likely going to be detectable by us humans) the HDD is the slow part in any PC, with SSD baring transfer rate other parts in the pc can be the limitation

HDD + raid gets more data rate maybe bit less access times so faster, why Vista is more bearable on an HDD when in raid as the randomness of vista on an HDD is realy so bad

SSD + raid = good benchmarks thats about it, and maps load 1-3 secs faster maybe depends on the game (thats First gen samsung based SSDs in RAID, JMicron drives do not count as first gen as thay are crap), if you use one of the 200MB SSDs as most games will load the map at the limation of the CPU and ram when it has to uncompress them as its reading the map file so it may not even be reading the map files at the full speed of the SSD any way as a lot of the time you may be CPU limited

RAID is pointless on the faster SSDs unless your messing with 5gb or bigger files and thats not likey to happen due to the size of SSDs
 
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