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Access times my be the same in Raid 0 but read and writes are almost double. I have not compared but the speed difference is so large that I think there is no question that is is faster for almost everything. Pleople talk about Raid overhead, loss of Trim, but still.

Well, I still find it difficult to understand why this issue is not clearly answered. Anyway, I have now tried 16 kB and 128 kB. 128 kB has given me better results in booting up and launching applications. I have then decided to use 128 kB stripe size. Antonio

Hello Elganja, Thank you very much for your inputs. They actually coincide with my experience. For me 128 kB (also the largest allowed by my Intel controller) cut boot up time from 29s (for 64 kB) to 26s. Applications did also launch more quickly. The 128 kB was on a slightly cleaner drive...

Hi, yes I mean stripe. I used "strip" because that is what Intel uses in its documentation. I will ultimately may have to do some testing, it looks like the only way to know for sure, but I would rather leave that to the labs or at least have a starting point of reference (16kB versus 64kb or...

I need to know what is the best strip (stripe) size for my 2x X25-M 160 GB G2 Raid 0 on my Dell laptop M6500. The laptop will be used for general web browsing, Microsoft Office, Photoshop, Visual Studio and other smaller programs. I tried 64 kb based on some research that I read some time...