PCI ssd or Raid

[dazphoenix]

I am currently looking to upgrade the boot drive from a 50gb Vertex 2 ssd to either a OCZ Revodrive or a pair of ssd's in Raid 0

anyone with any pro's or con's on either to help with the choice

Thanks

 

[Mercutio]

Cons:
The revodrive is nice but can't go into a laptop when you are done with it on the main computer. It also eats a PCIe slot. Which may or may not be a downer for your setup.

SSD's in raid 0 aren't able to recieve TRIM commands so you can expect their performance to drop off quite a bit. Intel have TRIM for raid-0 on RST/chipset raids in the pipeline for about 2 years now.

Pro's:
Revodrive is faster than similar sized SSD's

SSD's are cheaper than revo and will eventually be raidable.

 

[Kaapstad]

I use Revodrives on 2 of my PCs and think their very good but they are different to SSDs.

Where they are cards they need time to initialise when booting up. So boot times are longer than SSDs.

They do not support TRIM commands as internally they are a RAID0 setup. I think OCZ are working on this with Microsoft.

If you put them in a PCIe3 slot make sure the Mobo bios can run it @PCIe2 or the driver for the card will not load. Well mine did not anyway. Also for best performance use PCIe2 not a PCIe1 slot or you could lose a lot of speed depending on which revodrive being used.

The good news is once they are up and running nothing comes close speed wise.