Want to buy one of these but would like to hear the thoughts of guys in the no first....currently have 2 x x25m raid 0 but want to split it and put one in my laptop and one in my kids computer...any body got one and what about trim and garbage? Do these new drives have it?
Ocz revo x2
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No, they don't support TRIM any more than your onboard RAID array does.
All they are is four Vertex 2e drives in RAID 0 on a RAID controller, but all packaged on the same unit to save space.
Honestly the extra expense over building your own Array isn't worth it, unless you have some specialist application which requires better sequential throughput than the 600 or so MB/s your onboard ICH10 can manage.
For normal use and gaming the storage bottleneck is pretty much eliminated at one SSD, never mind four. Your money is better spent in getting more Gigabytes than faster throughput.
Of course, if money is no object, by all means go ahead. It looks cool and saves you a couple of minutes of fitting and cable managing 2.5" drives.
All they are is four Vertex 2e drives in RAID 0 on a RAID controller, but all packaged on the same unit to save space.
Honestly the extra expense over building your own Array isn't worth it, unless you have some specialist application which requires better sequential throughput than the 600 or so MB/s your onboard ICH10 can manage.
For normal use and gaming the storage bottleneck is pretty much eliminated at one SSD, never mind four. Your money is better spent in getting more Gigabytes than faster throughput.
Of course, if money is no object, by all means go ahead. It looks cool and saves you a couple of minutes of fitting and cable managing 2.5" drives.
No trim support for that particular drive as they come in a RAID array as you know but you might be interested in the results coming in from the latest drives from Corsair with the latest controllers in RAID. Mighty impressive. Maybe gone are the days of garbage collection/TRIM talk issues concerning SSD's and RAID. http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/3..._f90_solid_state_drive_raid_report/index.html
"Our testing shows that two drives in RAID 0 are able to read at 551MB/s and write at 544MB/s."
About £100 cheaper for 2 of those puppies in raid over the OCZ revodrive (based on 180gb revo vs 2x90gb force drives) and faster at both read and write, add into this that these latest corsairs seem to have no issue with garbage collection in RAID. Plus it's Corsair and I know which brand I would prefer.
Unless you really need a PCI-Express Solid State Drive of course. In which case ignore this post
"Our testing shows that two drives in RAID 0 are able to read at 551MB/s and write at 544MB/s."
About £100 cheaper for 2 of those puppies in raid over the OCZ revodrive (based on 180gb revo vs 2x90gb force drives) and faster at both read and write, add into this that these latest corsairs seem to have no issue with garbage collection in RAID. Plus it's Corsair and I know which brand I would prefer.
Unless you really need a PCI-Express Solid State Drive of course. In which case ignore this post
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I just like the idea of it being so neat in card form...my dangerden case has only 2x3.5 drive bay spaces which have 2 x 2tb drives in with the ssds where ever they will go so to get it of the mobo is a big plus....I realise my mobo will be capped at 600 mb odd but it is what it is.....I think this is the way I'm going to go to be honest...thanks for the info guys