would these work in raid 0?

I'm assuming you're planning on using them as boot drives?
There'd certainly be some performance boost because the F1s are faster drives and RAIDing them obviously helps. But you can't be filling 2tb with OS/programs and if you're RAID 0ing them you can't keep important data on them not backed up, so it seems something of a waste. Certainly the larger SSDs are out of the question with your price range but you don't really need 256gb for OS/programs, and there's no point in using SSDs for regular storage, the price/gb is far too high for that.
If you're planning on spending about £160 for a better performing OS, I'd probably get the £120 60Gb Solid SSD here, then get a storage hdd seperately. Unless you need a lot of storage space in which case I wouldn't RAID 0 those F1s - you're then twice as likely to lose your data.
 
thanks for the advice +)

one question though are the ocx SSd any good? im using for gaming and o/s would it be a lot slower than say the vertex or samsung?
 
As above tbh, you don't need 2tb of boot space, and having RAID increases the change of data loss. Get two 320gb F1drives for programmes and games, and a 1tb for storage. You'll see better performance, and your data is safer.
 
As the others have said, for your boot RAID 0 array you'd be better off with two smaller drives, the F1's as Ben M has said or what about the 320Gb WD Blue here as they have got a good rep too.

I'd then put a pair of larger drives as storage / backup - poss even in RAID 1.

I have SSD's for boot RAID 0 and 2 x 1Tb F1's as RAID 1 storage and it works a treat cause I can also hold a complete OS image on the RAID 1 array.
 
markiejt said:
thanks for the advice +)

one question though are the ocx SSd any good? im using for gaming and o/s would it be a lot slower than say the vertex or samsung?
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I don't know about the Samsungs but the Vertexes are deffo meant to be faster than OCZs other offerings. Even so, I swapped out my SSD (OCZ Core V1) to my laptop recently and have been booting from a 1tb F1 since - huge difference in performance. Some people have had stuttering problems but I've not noticed anything with it, probably helps to not have a paging file on it. Basically even OCZs lower-end SSDs are substantially faster in most real life situations than a mechanical HDD, your loading times will plummet, and going back to mechanical after SSD just hurts.
Plus it somehow feels tidier to have the OS on one drive and documents/media on separate drives!

If you decide to stick with mechanical a while longer, Ben's suggestion's good - a couple of low-capacity but fast HDDs for RAIDing the OS, then a larger drive for storage. But I'll be relegating my boot F1 to storage as soon as I can afford another SSD.
 
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