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

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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

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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==
 
Tell me about it. :(

I run my 2 Vertex separately and i dont see any diference between raid0 and a single drive. And I can trime it :D
 
I think if you have 3 x 250Gb RE3's then you're already going to be getting great performance, I'm tempted to buy 128Gb SSD though has well, maybe a Vertex Turbo or a G.Skill Falcon..

I'm just worried I'm going to buy myself a bag of frustration ;)

HEADRAT
 
yeah i'm wanting a 60GB-80GB ssd to swap for my 2x320GB RE3's. The are still a decent speed but ssd's speeds are crazy. I'm gunna stay patient and wait for a SATA3 ssd though as the limits of sata2 in certain scenarios and certain ssd's has already been reached. if they use raid0 inside a vertex turbo then the speeds would be miles more than sata2 can handle.

i do headrat, costs too much to leave pc on 24/7.
 
My problem is that because I will have 2 x F1's in RAID1 (backup), if I install an SSD for my OS drive the RAID controller is still being used so my boot speed will not show any improvement.
 
Yes but the RAID controller being used will only add some time your POST, the actual OS boot will be much faster and any drive not actually being RAIDd is seen as a single IDE drive.

Hawker
 
Stonedofmoo said:
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!
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I agree. I cloned my RAID SSD array to a single SSD a few weeks ago and have not noticed any difference in boot times into windows.

My RAID SSD is now purely for STEAM use. Seems to be the best configuration.
 
Hardly. The performance gains will be negligible by using a second drive for programs, but still gains because there will be less load placed upon each SSD. It's just less hassle to deal with a single, larger drive, plus use in laptops, and cheaper because larger capacity.
 
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.
 
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.
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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.
 
Okay I understand the OP's post and to be honest it is no less than expected eg the overheads of running in raid with ssd slows down windows boot time since the randon access speed is the most important, not sequential read/writes but is that why people buy ssd's? I suspect not.

More important to people is how they perform in windows when booted up. I would live with a couple of seconds slower boot time if in windows it was generally faster.

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.
 
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