prep for ssd's?

Psypher5

Psypher5

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So, getting some ssd's to run in raid hopefully.. and jumping in blind.

Kingston v+ 64gb (the ones that do TRIM ( O.o ) apparently)
getting 2 of these :)


So, I rekon 128 will be big enough for an os drive with programs and maybe a few games (I found a guide on steam forums on how to link steam from an external drive, say a 1tb, to a few games on the ssd)


Wondering what else I need to "know" with ssd's, I'm totally new to them. Well I had a 4gig on in an asus eeepc, lol.

I'll be doing a fresh win 7 install, should I make sure anything is set in BIOS to enable ssd's or anything?
what should I turn off/on in windows?
I shouldn't defrag should I?
Whats all this TRIM, and does it work in RAID 0?

All info in one thread will be easier for me, and undoubtedly for others too.
 
I'm not sure RAID arrays have much effect on SSD's at this level?

I currently run Windows 7 64bit on a Kingston Vnow SSD and select progs (Java etc) and everything else inc games on a Raptor, so if you install both drives you could do it that way? (:C and : D)

Set the SATA drive in BIOS before installing Windows to AHCI mode
After install, open an elevated cmd box and type fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify. If trim is enabled it will reply "0"

On my drive, it liked write caching, indexing, pagefile and hibernation disabled
 
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I'll be using a sammy f1 1tb as a D drive for media (i like my films, and my steam folder is hitting insane sizes)

Not sure about the raid gains, doing it more for space gains really :P (getting the drives for a good price) be interesting to know what gains there are.

Also, cheers :) I'll make a note of those settings, and add it to my build thread :D
 
Trim is the housekeeping on an SSD that has replaced defragging, as when blocks of data are deleted, if theres no trim active on the SSD, the block stays written, but when new data is added, it first has to delete the old data before it can write the new one to the block.

Trim removes the deleted data from blocks prior to new data being written, therefore speeding up the process.

Defragging shouldn't be done on an SSD drive as it shortens the drives lifespan.

On a side note, Diskeeper 2010 has a setting for SSD's to enhance trim called HyperFast, and i've noticed mine being "snappier"

http://www.diskeeper.com/blog/post/2010/04/02/Do-you-still-need-HyperFast-if-you-have-TRIM.aspx
 
Shall look into that feature when I get it up and running :)

Whats the deal with trim and raid (on the kingstons, being used with a dfi mitx p55)

Mobo:
Serial ATA
Supports up to 3 SATA devices
Intel Matrix Storage technology
SATA speed up to 3Gb/s
RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 and RAID 5
Supports 1 Power eSATA device
 
TRIM doesn't currenly work on raid.

with the latest intel driver, you can use TRIM on a raid controller, as long as the SSD itself isn't in the array.

so 2 SSD's in raid and TRIM wont function
 
I would just buy one 128gb ssd mate.... Please forget raid. You won't get any extra preformance. Raid0 was only really used when drives were much slower.. Its even pointless on todays mechanical drives.
 
getting them for quite cheap so not really an option... I wasnt looking at raid from a performance view, just a capacity view.

But would the lack of trim be so much of a deal, if it were raided?

getting a tad confused here, lol.

So, these v+'s use the samsung controller? Which apparently is good (well, good for raid, so i shouldnt loose performance)?

"The Samsung controller has a unique feature called Self-Healing. The drive is able to cleanse itself of deleted data without being ordered to by the operating system" blahblah..

it seems to be ok?
 
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