2 kingston 40gb raid 0 results

[outkast2k5]

i've seen this asked alot and thought i'd share my experience with 2 kingston 40gb in rad 0

here is a pic

for the people wondering i am using the tony-trim which is using perfectdisk 10 to consolidate the free space then using as-cleaner to write 1's in the free space. This is similar to garbage collecton and so far works great

 

[Engineer]

Damn, that's pretty sweet...especially the random 4k writes. Makes me want to get two for my other system (and I haven't even installed my OCZ 120GB Vertex on my #1 system yet).

Especially with a price of $89.99 - 7% Bing right now! 😱

 

[Zap]

Why are the 4K reads so slow?

 

[Engineer]

Why are the 4K reads so slow?

I thought the same thing until I went and looked at the Vertex thread (OCZ forums) and they were even slower.

Edit: Just looked at a few benchmarks from the Intel drives (in this forum) and the single units run 15 to 16MB/sec so I guess this seems right.

 

[lizardboy]

Thanks for posting. OK, it's decision time...I'm planning to buy one of the following before the end of '09.

>2 x 40GB Kingston SSD running in RAID 0 (with tony-trim). I can pick up the pair for a little under $150 (from Buy.com, with Bing Cashback and BillMeLater promo).

>1 x 60GB OCZ Vertex. This drive can be had from TigerDirect for $185 (after Bing Cashback, $20 rebate, and eBillMe Promo).

Right now my Win7 x64 installation is only using 32GB of my 50GB OS partition, including the pagefile & hibernate file, so I think 60GB would be plenty of space.

Thoughts, advice?

 

[Emulex]

show me 60gb ocz vertex benchmarks - all i've seen to date are 120gb