SSD with SATA150?

kevlar69 · 9 Oct 2009 at 18:52

I've just been reading up on the performance benefits of SSD drives and am thinking of getting one. I built by pc 2 years ago based on a Asus P5N32-E SLI which I believe is only sata 1 not 2 so my question is can this keep up with the SSD drives or am I looking at a system rebuild?

ChileanLlama · 9 Oct 2009 at 19:09

Should be SATA2 on that board - so no issues.

kevlar69 · 9 Oct 2009 at 22:41

Thanks very much, I always thought it was sata 1, that's a nice surprise.

cheers

Kev

JonJ678 · 10 Oct 2009 at 02:57

Even were it not, while sata1 can bottleneck an ssd it'll still be very much faster than a hard drive. Wouldn't mean a new motherboard was needed

kevlar69 · 10 Oct 2009 at 18:14

To extend this question a little, is anyone here using this board with SSD's? is it worth me raiding 2 30g's rather than getting just 1 60? are there any headaches using them in a raid 0 config and how reliable would this be? I got burn't by a bad motherboard when I dabbled in raid a few years ago and lost a lot of data ( stripe lost ) and haven't touched it since.

Monkeynut · 10 Oct 2009 at 21:01

I'd stick with a single drive as onboard RAID is generally fairly pants.

AbsenceJam · 10 Oct 2009 at 21:12

Monkeynut said:
I'd stick with a single drive as onboard RAID is generally fairly pants.

Only for RAID 5 because that requires a lot of calculations and a dedicated processor. 0, 1 and 10 do not so they're as good onboard.