ssd 1 or 2 in raid
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The crucial drives are fine, m225 is not as fast as the Intel x25-m though.
Personally i'd have 2x80GB intels in RAID0, but 2x64GB Crucials are a solid choice and will save you a bit of cash.
RAID0 makes sense with SSD's, reliability is a factor of how many flash chips there are, so because two 64GB drives will usually have the same amount of chips as a single 128GB drive, it's not as risky as it looks at first.
There is no TRIM on RAID arrays(yet), but the speed boost in RAID0 more than makes up for the individual drives not operating at peak performance.
Personally i'd have 2x80GB intels in RAID0, but 2x64GB Crucials are a solid choice and will save you a bit of cash.
RAID0 makes sense with SSD's, reliability is a factor of how many flash chips there are, so because two 64GB drives will usually have the same amount of chips as a single 128GB drive, it's not as risky as it looks at first.
There is no TRIM on RAID arrays(yet), but the speed boost in RAID0 more than makes up for the individual drives not operating at peak performance.
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The latest drivers allow TRIM when the SATA controller is in RAID mode, but not on SSD's that are in in arrays.
So it'll pass the TRIM commands through to the SSD if you have a single SSD and a separate RAID of other drives, but If the SSD is part of an Array it won't work.
Depends on what Crucial drive you are on about....
In a raid set up the intel drives will read faster...
What are you going to be using your PC for ...
real usage preformance you will probably not notice any difference.
So go with what you are happy to spend money..
As SSD's are fast raided or not
In a raid set up the intel drives will read faster...
What are you going to be using your PC for ...
real usage preformance you will probably not notice any difference.
So go with what you are happy to spend money..
As SSD's are fast raided or not
i see so all the drives are now getting firmware updates for trim while using raid as well ...so for instance if a new firmware comes out do i need to reformat everytime a update comes out ?
And what about cache what do these drives have in that department.
And what about cache what do these drives have in that department.
The X25-M 80GB is a great drive.
RAID on SSD's is a little pointless. The biggest benifit of SSD's is the extremly low latency and RAID will only slow this down. Unless you are continually copying large files there is no real point in 300Mbits+ read and write speeds. Low latency is and fast 4-16k (small file) reads/writes is what you really want and the X25-M does both very well.
RAID on SSD's is a little pointless. The biggest benifit of SSD's is the extremly low latency and RAID will only slow this down. Unless you are continually copying large files there is no real point in 300Mbits+ read and write speeds. Low latency is and fast 4-16k (small file) reads/writes is what you really want and the X25-M does both very well.
I managed to get two 120g drives for a great price so for me it was a no-brainer, I'd close to filled the first one and needed the space. I've now got a 240g SSD that's big enough for all my needs, the benefit of RAID isn't an issue either way, they're damn fast on their own, their damn fast in RAID 
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.ive ordered the 80gb x25 m....think i should have got the 160gb now as was planning to get another one in a few weeks to raid them....but The biggest benifit of SSD's is the extremly low latency and RAID will only slow this down. is this correct?
Whilst I agree that The low latency are a great advantage of SSD's, Sequential speeds will always remain important - look at reviews comparing the Micron C300 on SATA 3Gb vs SATA 6Gb for evidence of this.
Considering the Pricing of SSD's depends more on capacity rather than on the number of drives, Doubling your performance with RAID0 is practically free.