Raid Card for SSDs

[Nevakonaza]

Anyone recommend a good raid card that will enable,and be capable of supporting 2x Solid state drives in Raid 0 yet not hold back performance.

The drives i intend to raid are 2x OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB (Sata2)

Thanks!

 

[TheBiznes]

Onboard ich 10 is about capable at around 775 mb's per second it should handle the 2 you have.

Other than that I have an Areca 1880i which I can recommend. It will handle it and more easily, but costs around £500. If only 2 drives stick with ich10.

 

[Zarf]

Agreed.
Sequential access doesn't have the impact you might expect, it's all just marketing. My Intel SSD's don't feel a great deal faster in RAID0 than when on their own, despite scaling linearly (they bench almost twice as fast). Most stuff is either bottlenecked elsewhere or loads so quickly anyway that you can't perceive the difference.

Given that TRIM for RAID is coming out for Intel Onboard's shortly in the next RST Driver release I can't see any point in getting an expensive add-in card.

 

[jbloggs]

I am assuming that you are using the motherboard in your sig to run 2 x SSD's in RAID0, which does not have the ICH10R cont, but the ICH10, ie no RAID facility on it...to be frank buying a decent RAID card would be a waste of money as you really would not notice much (if any) performance increase from using a single SSD (in AHCI mode) on the ICH10 as opposed to 2 x SSD's in RAID...

 

[Zarf]

I am assuming that you are using the motherboard in your sig to run 2 x SSD's in RAID0, which does not have the ICH10R cont, but the ICH10, ie no RAID facility on it

Nice catch, didn't realise Intel even did this any more, very cheap of them.