Vertex 3 RAID0

Amraam · 28 May 2012 at 17:59

Hi all,

Was thinking about getting a Vertex 3 240GB for my games, but I saw this instead:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-113-OC

Worth a look?

AllBodies · 28 May 2012 at 20:40

RAID will disable TRIM support, so the speed of the drives will go down as time goes on, and you will have to leave the computer inactive for a little while (as in it's on and in windows but you're not doing anything) for the drives to clean themselves up and go back to full performance.

Also I don't believe RAID increases the read speed of games due to the data type. And lastly if games is your focus then get a crucial m4 as it has the fastest read in games and is cheaper.

Source of speed: http://img.hexus.net/v2/SSD/OCZ/Vertex4/graph-10.png

Hagar · 28 May 2012 at 21:41

Pretty sure a single SSD at 240GB is better overall than 2 x 120Gb

Amraam · 28 May 2012 at 23:17

Thank. Think I'll just bite the bullet at get the 256GB M4. Will mean I'll be using the older, slower Vertex 2e for windows, but it's by no means slow.

Arcane · 29 May 2012 at 14:08

RAID 0 is fine. The only downside I found was having the RAID menu pop up at post. TRIM doesn't matter if you use OCZ drives as they have garbage collection which is pretty much the same thing.