ssd raid

Hi

Yeah I have two OCZ Vertex 2 SSDs in Raid0 and benchmark is HERE and I didn have 2 10k Raptors in Raid0 and the SSDs of same size beat the data I/O hands down. *that thread in benchmarks was a benchmark only and not a definitive post for TRIM not working in Raid Arrays as yet I did blog about that difference IIRC*

Pro - damn quick! apps open seriously quickly and especially on Win7 x64 and if the app is native x64 (Office 2010 x64 for one), boot nad shutdown also, so PC is generally snappy.

Con - unless the TRIM function is added to the Sandforce 2400 controller (I think the SF controllers personally are the ones to go for over Intels) for RAID compatabilty then you dont get this luxury, however IIRC the Garbage Collection of the Sandforce controller works in a similar way but you need to leave the PC idle for a while.

I've not noticed usabe space disapear for the speed deteriorate yet, but you do need to clean install and read up on OCZs website on the tweaks for SSDs as you dont need Defrag, Indexing, System Restore (although on SR I would be inclinded to use a Imaging app like Acronis to image your SSDs to a spare HDD) etc and these should be disabled by Windows 7 after a few driver installed and a reboot, but its worth checking they are disabled.

Do not run too many benchmarks on the drives, as some fill up the blocks too quickly and in the end you may have the zero fill the drives to get them back to peek.

I also read into its best to have a % of unformatted space on the SSDs for overheads and dead blocks etc, I allocated 10GB to RAW.



TBH 1 SSD in non Raid is quick enough and worth thinking about not Raiding them, but your likely like me and will give things a go

 

Think as you mentioned using two SSDs then you're fine, just have good read of this HERE, I read this few times.