Stripe SSD or Not?

[KUSREKCOLCREVO]

Have an Evo 850 120 Gig SSD and am keen to throw in 1 or 2 more and stripe them for performance...

Do people do this with SSD? is TRIM supported on current SSD's

 

[Minstadave]

Most people don't bother, the real world gains are poor and you are more at risk of data loss. TRIM wasn't originally supported in RAID, not sure what the current state of play is as so few people bother.

 

[CapitalOne]

I've just done this (too many SSDs!) with Sandisk 240gb drives.

Real world difference not noticable, bench results at the bottom of this thread -> https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18734163

HTH

 

[spoffle]

As far as I know RAID kills seek performance of SSDs. Peak read and write goes up for large files bit it's only something you'd notice when transferring fairly large files, which the chances are will be mostly never.

 

[Doogles]

Why not just get a 480GB SSD and call it quits? If you want use the old one for something else or sell it.

 

[David Bisset]

Worth remembering that normally bigger SSDs are already faster and have no array initialisation time so real-world can actually be better for startup times and indistinguishable a lot of the rest of the time.

 

[rodt99]

Not.

Unless you are doing it for an intellectual exercise you'll be better off with a large single SSD.

 

[CapitalOne]

Bearing in mind the prices of SSDs these days I have to agree with that.

Do it for fun or not at all.

 

[Glanza]

Been running 2 for the last 4 years in raid. Apart from benchmarks no real world speed increase. Will be swapping to 1 big SSD for Windows when I next upgrade.

 

[linktoinsanity]

I wouldn't bother as it does not really make any difference.

The only time I have used RAID 0 was in the days when I ran 2x Hard disks (WD Blacks), before I got my first SSD.

 

[phenx]

Not much point, real world difference is minimal, I've tried in the past and ended up reverting it.