RAID vs. OCZ Hybrid

[Bannon]

I have a Sandy Bridge Z68 system with an i7 2600-K processor, 16GB memory, and a MSI N580GTX Lightning video card that I use for gaming, photo editing, video editing, and other miscellaneous tasks. I have an Intel 510 240GB drive as my system and application drive, another Intel 510 240GB drive as my primary data drive, and a spinning disk for my longer term, processed video drive. I like having my photos and video work files on the SSD as a way of speeding up processing. However, I’m considering one of two possible changes that I would like feedback on. I’m considering putting the two SSDs in RAID 0 and creating a single larger drive as a way of more efficiently using the combined capacity as well as speeding up processing even more. I’m religious about backups so RAID failure is not a major concern. I do, though, have a slight concern with performance degradation using non-Sandforce SSDs in RAID. Thoughts? The other option is the new OCZ Hybrid 1TB drive. The tech looks cool and I can see how it works well for files that are frequently accessed but I can’t image the photos or videos I’m processing being cached so processing would drop from the performance of an SSD to that of a 5400 RPM drive. Am I thinking about this correctly?

Thanks in advance for your comments and thoughts.

 

[nanaki333]

i've been running SSDs in raid0 for well over 2 years now. i've never had a failure and love having the breathing room. the only reason i switched my old G1 intels is because i just felt like updating. the drives had tons of life left on them too, so not having TRIM wasn't a huge deal either. i also did the tony trim every so often to clean it, but that was about it.

 

[Bannon]

Thanks for getting back with me so quickly. What is "the tony trim"?

 

[nanaki333]

it's a nice way to clean up your SSD.

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/f...-A-simple-guide-for-speeding-up-EOL-OCZ-SSD-s.

in addition to my raid0 ssd, i keep a 256GB M4 as my steam drive

 

[Old Hippie]

i've been running SSDs in raid0 for well over 2 years now.

Same here and I've never had a problem.

I've had Intel G1s, G2s, and now Crucial 300s.

ALL SSDs have some internal garbage collection which is slower than TRIM but does the same thing.

Unused space can help tremendously with keeping an SSDs performance robust and I would recommend at least 20%.

Go for it!

 

[groberts101]

raid the SSD's.. then use at least 3-4 HDD's in R0 to better match the transfer speeds of that OS volume. Then add a larger external drive for redundancy/backups.

Transfer speeds of that type of data will skyrocket and you will understand how much you've been leaving on the table without raid.