SSD upgrade....RAID or not?

father-ted · 22 Nov 2010 at 15:07

I have had troubles with my current Crucial SSD since day 1, so am thinking of upgrading it (current SSD I had extreme troubles getting the mobo to see it correctly and it would not work in AHCI for some reason (running in IDE atm).

Is it worth getting 2 and putting them into raid?
£200-£250 for the pair would be my price range, what are my best options?

Thanks

DragonQ · 22 Nov 2010 at 15:23

You could get 2x64 GB for under £200 but you need to think about whether you want TRIM or not. Also, your current SSD issues seem to come from a motherboard problem so a new one/pair might not solve that.

Samshirley00 · 22 Nov 2010 at 15:24

what about those pci-e drives, some of those can beat 2 SSD's.....

jbloggs · 22 Nov 2010 at 15:41

What cont (on your motherboard) and OS are you using your current Crucial SSD on?

Is it worth getting 2 and putting them into raid?

Unless you work with large (video) files (copying/moving) and/or regularly unzipping compressed archives there will really be no performance improvement as opposed to using singke SSDs/HDDs...

£200-£250 for the pair would be my price range, what are my best options?

This or This

nicnik · 22 Nov 2010 at 19:59

no trim is bad. raid = no trim. the pcie ssd's = no trim.

father-ted · 23 Nov 2010 at 18:57

jbloggs said:
What cont (on your motherboard) and OS are you using your current Crucial SSD on?

Unless you work with large (video) files (copying/moving) and/or regularly unzipping compressed archives there will really be no performance improvement as opposed to using singke SSDs/HDDs...

This or This

I am using the Intel ports on my mobo, with W7 64bit.
For the life of me I could not get the mobo to install the OS using AHCI, hence I had to use IDE.

I previously tried a re-install and hit the same problems with this SSD....maybe it is flaky, maybe I did something wrong.

I am thinking of a new SSD to do a fresh install, whilst still keeping the old SSD until everything is reinstalled 100% working etc.

Then either sell it or put it into my daughters laptop.
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The C300 drive you recommend, is it advisable to get a SATA3 adapter to gain the higher speeds with my SATA2 mobo?

Thanks for you're time.

jbloggs · 23 Nov 2010 at 22:07

father-ted said:
...The C300 drive you recommend, is it advisable to get a SATA3 adapter to gain the higher speeds with my SATA2 mobo?

Yes, I think it is, as SATA2 will be a bottleneck for the C300 reads...

Either This (although made by Asus, I reckon it should work on a Gigabyte mobo) or This...

SoildSnake · 24 Nov 2010 at 16:09

With what dragono said i think raiding non-SSD would be best until you get a new MB or whole new PC

father-ted · 2 Dec 2010 at 20:28

SoildSnake said:
With what dragono said i think raiding non-SSD would be best until you get a new MB or whole new PC

Whole new PC.....good grief no I didn't build this one not too long ago and it cost over 1.5k at the time....lol

Not looking to change the mobo just yet, so will prob go for a C300 with a sata3 adapter.

rush_syndrome · 2 Dec 2010 at 22:58

If you have a spare x4 PCIe slot, go Revodrive. Please ignore all posts from people that dont actually own one as they are only quoting gossip. You DO NOT NEED TRIM on a Revodrive as they manage their own garbage collection as long as you leave 10% free. Mine is still benching at exactly the same kpi's as it was when I bought it 4 months ago. I get 550MB read and 485MB write all day long. Faster than SATA3, no need to worry about changing your MB. No wires, no space issues just plug and go. Any other paranoia about compatability has long since been sorted. Just waiting for Revo2 to be officially released and I will buy one of those too. Personaly I think they are excellent and I do not want to buy another ordinary drive again - conventional brick-type SSD's included.

father-ted · 3 Dec 2010 at 17:33

When will the Revo2 be released mate?

father-ted · 11 Dec 2010 at 13:21

Anytime soon?

garyfl · 11 Dec 2010 at 13:34

Samshirley00 said:
what about those pci-e drives, some of those can beat 2 SSD's.....

for 3x the cost

Zarf · 11 Dec 2010 at 22:32

Just grab another 64GB crucial (or two) and stick them in RAID0.
My opinion on the subject is that although you won't notice too much of a speed difference most of the time, it's pretty much the same £/GB to go RAID0 rather than single SSD so you may as well. The doubled speed will be useful from time to time.

TRIM isn't a big deal with RAID0, the speed increase from striping more than outweighs anything lost due to degredation. C300 has garbage collection anyway so it'll recover performance whenever you leave it to idle.

mikeo · 11 Dec 2010 at 22:57

I agree with DragonQ.

You are not the first person I've seen with problems with the UD5 motherboard and SSD's. Might not be the same problem/s of course. But a hell of a lot of money to shell out and find things are still FUBAR!

Question... anyone out there with this mobo and got an SSD working OK on it???

EDIT... whoops... it was a GA-X58-USB3 I was thinking about.