Windows 7 SSD performance with RAID on ICH10R and hardware RAID controller

Stonedofmoo · 14 Jul 2009 at 14:02

HardOCP have done an interesting article on SSD performance in Windows 7.

Bottom line is the Intel ICH10R is very capable unless running 4* drives, and a single SSD boots into Windows 7 quicker than SSD's in RAID 0!
These are the times for Windows boot

This confirms what many of us suspected, SSD's in RAID is a waste of time unless you enjoy running benchmarks.

Full details here: http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTY1OCwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

Stonedofmoo · 14 Jul 2009 at 14:33

Yeah thats what I have headrat, 3* 250Gb RE3's. But I don't need the space and was thinking of swapping to a single 128Gb SSD.

Stonedofmoo · 15 Jul 2009 at 08:09

Gills said:
Well to be honest, they have not done an article on "SSD performance" at all. They did an article on how fast the Corsair P256 SSD's are though.

Not on all SSD's no, but the Corsairs are current generation, performance SSD's and the purpose was to show performance of SSD's in different configs.

Perhaps they should have labled it SSD's in RAID on Windows 7.

Stonedofmoo · 15 Jul 2009 at 10:29

Duke said:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18029638

Oops, epic fail on my behalf.

Stonedofmoo · 16 Jul 2009 at 07:42

... no one is arguing otherwise. The point is using RAID with SSD is for the most part a waste of time. Windows doesn't need better transfer rates, it needs better access times and a single SSD offers that already, adding extra drives in RAID doesn't add any speed increase.

Also a lot of people buy two ssd drives in raid because they can't afford a bigger drive and a single drive is too small for their needs.

Also that didn't make any sense at all. Have you looked at prices lately? Buying 2* 30Gb drives rather than a single 60Gb SSD is more expensive. Did you mean a faster drive? If so thats also false economy as the cheaper drives have the inferior controllers without cache and buying them is false economy.