Raiding SSD

adaswani said:
I am planing to buy a large ssd about 120gig but i was wondering if i get better performance if i raid0 two 60gig ssds.
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Don't think you'll notice any real world performance increase for general use, although if you regularly work with large (video) files (copying/moving) or often unzipping large archives it could be helpful...
 
jbloggs said:
Don't think you'll notice any real world performance increase for general use, although if you regularly work with large (video) files (copying/moving) or often unzipping large archives it could be helpful...
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I thought you got double the speeds with Raid SSD's...
 
aj2703 said:
I thought you got double the speeds with Raid SSD's...
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you do but you loose features such as TRIM on most drives also boot times are a little longer.
I had 2 30gb vertex OCZ drives in Raid and they were fast enough for sure and for the £130 or so I paid for the both it was worth it but I wanted bigger so went and bought a 120gb vertex 2 :)
 
vintage-x said:
you do but you loose features such as TRIM on most drives also boot times are a little longer.
I had 2 30gb vertex OCZ drives in Raid and they were fast enough for sure and for the £130 or so I paid for the both it was worth it but I wanted bigger so went and bought a 120gb vertex 2 :)
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Boot times are longer in raid. Jees never knew that... What about video encoding etc. How much of an improvement would raid be to it.
 
Boot times are only longer because you have to wait (1 second on mine) while the splash/bios screen display to allow you to go into the RAID bios. Once that is loaded two drives will demoilish a single drive on the way to loading windows. Of course when you're in windows the performance will again be double. The drawbacks are that unless you use a Sandforce of similar architect controller, you will have to secure erase/re image the OS again when it slows down. So far I have not found this to be teh case with the Revo.
 
rush_syndrome said:
Boot times are only longer because you have to wait (1 second on mine) while the splash/bios screen display to allow you to go into the RAID bios. Once that is loaded two drives will demoilish a single drive on the way to loading windows. Of course when you're in windows the performance will again be double. The drawbacks are that unless you use a Sandforce of similar architect controller, you will have to secure erase/re image the OS again when it slows down. So far I have not found this to be teh case with the Revo.
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I think my Corsair F60 uses a Sandforce controller so hopefully will be ok.
 
saying that raid SSDs dont have TRIM some do have garbage collection which is sort of the same thing although it takes a while to kick in (best way I used to check is to run ASS benchmark to see if the score came back to normal)
To get it to kick in you need to leave your computer idleing for a while
 
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