Collider
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Looking to breathe some life into my trusty X58/Hahalem build.
The configuration is listed in the signature, and I have 2 x 120GB Corsair SSDs.
The Intel 80GB G2 I have now just isnt enough any more for OS/ProgramFiles, and the 120 doesnt have much room for growth - but I happen to grab them both at $50 ea. from newegg.
Here are the options I'm considering for OS/Apps:
1) 2 x 120 Corsairs in RAID-0
- from what I know I'll loose TRIM, any workarounds for my x58 chip set?
2) 1st Corsiar 120 SSD for OS = C-DRIVE, 2nd for ProgramFiles = D-DRIVE
- I'm theorizing that this setup should improve in Windows performance over a single large SSD due to fact IO requests won't be bottlenecked by single device - performance gain would be during start-up or opening apps when its likely that OS files and ProgramFiles data being hit concurrently
- Has anyone tried this or can comment if my logic is sound?
3) last option would be to just go grab a 240GB SSD
4 ) and the very last option I guess would be to go PCI-E SSD card route, not the most desirable as I wont be able to reuse this SSD in a laptop lets say but if the ROI on performance gain is worth then why not.
Ideally I'd also like to get some more disk I/O performance out of this board, as x58/i7 is still a powerhouse IMO even for my usage patterns (development & gaming) plus when I purchased I looked for D0 so I will be getting good OC out of this build.
The configuration is listed in the signature, and I have 2 x 120GB Corsair SSDs.
The Intel 80GB G2 I have now just isnt enough any more for OS/ProgramFiles, and the 120 doesnt have much room for growth - but I happen to grab them both at $50 ea. from newegg.
Here are the options I'm considering for OS/Apps:
1) 2 x 120 Corsairs in RAID-0
- from what I know I'll loose TRIM, any workarounds for my x58 chip set?
2) 1st Corsiar 120 SSD for OS = C-DRIVE, 2nd for ProgramFiles = D-DRIVE
- I'm theorizing that this setup should improve in Windows performance over a single large SSD due to fact IO requests won't be bottlenecked by single device - performance gain would be during start-up or opening apps when its likely that OS files and ProgramFiles data being hit concurrently
- Has anyone tried this or can comment if my logic is sound?
3) last option would be to just go grab a 240GB SSD
4 ) and the very last option I guess would be to go PCI-E SSD card route, not the most desirable as I wont be able to reuse this SSD in a laptop lets say but if the ROI on performance gain is worth then why not.
Ideally I'd also like to get some more disk I/O performance out of this board, as x58/i7 is still a powerhouse IMO even for my usage patterns (development & gaming) plus when I purchased I looked for D0 so I will be getting good OC out of this build.
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