Quick SSD question.

[mykah891]

I recently acquired two CT64M225 64GB, the crucial 64 gig drives...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820148318

They have the indilinix controllers from what i have read and support trim and GC, i dont do much except some gaming / occasional visual studio programming however i got the drives cheap enough for me to get into the SSD game.

I understand trim is a vital part in upkeep for the drives and from what i can read if i wanted to put the two drives in a raid array i would lose the trim functionality and have only the GC to rely on to keep the drives speed up.

I have read mixed reviews of people saying its fine, and others saying that they noticed a performance degradation after some time... i dont have a real reason for running them in a raid array other than the increase in speed.

Since im coming from an ancient mechanical drive im sure i will notice a huge difference either way. Would i be better off not running them in a raid array and retaining trim, or putting them into raid relying only on GC?


Thanks in advance.

 

[fffblackmage]

I think just having the SSD will be so fast, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between no raid and raid0. I suppose you might benefit from faster write speeds though.

I don't know how much trouble it is to create a raid array, but to me, just having the SSD is fast enough that it wouldn't be worth the trouble. I also don't want to run into degradation issues because TRIM isn't enabled under raid. I think you can fix that, but again, I just don't really want to deal with it.

 

[mykah891]

Thanks, yea the more i read the more i read about people having to un raid and wipe drives and trim etc etc.

Im leaning the same way, im sure compared to this slug of a drive i have now (5.3) WE rating the SSD will be amazing, maybe ill wait to raid when there is a more reliable way to trim the array.

 

[Hacp]

It will still be faster than a raptor.

 

[MisterDonut]

My friend has OCZ Vertexes that are running in raid. His GC is aggressive enough (older firmware) that the lack of TRIM is having very minimal effects.