SSDs raid 0 or Vraptor raid 0

[jgigz]

Within reason, say no more than the cost of buying 2 Vraptors, is there anything comparable for SSDs to offer the same ammount of performance? with the new intel drives, which yields the best performance for a gaming machine and just general OS / application use?

 

[Ben90]

Any single drive based on an Indilnx (however u spell it) or intel controller will be faster than 5 striped Vraptors


http://www.anandtech.com/stora...owdoc.aspx?i=3631&p=20

 

[jgigz]

Are there any controller or firmware issues that limit capability or performance in RAID setups with SSD drives?

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: jgigz
Are there any controller or firmware issues that limit capability or performance in RAID setups with SSD drives?

No, but you won't be able to use TRIM on them for the foreseeable future if you do put a raid controller between them and the OS.

Still though, it is generally accepted that a 2xRaid0 SSD setup w/o TRIM will still be faster than a solitary non-raid SSD w/TRIM enabled so long as you are comparing the same SSD's in the two configurations.

 

[jgigz]

Originally posted by: Idontcare

Originally posted by: jgigz
Are there any controller or firmware issues that limit capability or performance in RAID setups with SSD drives?

No, but you won't be able to use TRIM on them for the foreseeable future if you do put a raid controller between them and the OS.

Still though, it is generally accepted that a 2xRaid0 SSD setup w/o TRIM will still be faster than a solitary non-raid SSD w/TRIM enabled so long as you are comparing the same SSD's in the two configurations.

Thats interesting . . . I've yet to hear that. Thanks for the info.

 

[Owls]

Originally posted by: Idontcare

Originally posted by: jgigz
Are there any controller or firmware issues that limit capability or performance in RAID setups with SSD drives?

No, but you won't be able to use TRIM on them for the foreseeable future if you do put a raid controller between them and the OS.

Still though, it is generally accepted that a 2xRaid0 SSD setup w/o TRIM will still be faster than a solitary non-raid SSD w/TRIM enabled so long as you are comparing the same SSD's in the two configurations.

+1

In addition, Anand alluded to Intel being able to fix the TRIM issue on RAID via a driver update. Hopefully, this is the case.

 

[postmortemIA]

Originally posted by: Owls

Originally posted by: Idontcare

Originally posted by: jgigz
Are there any controller or firmware issues that limit capability or performance in RAID setups with SSD drives?

No, but you won't be able to use TRIM on them for the foreseeable future if you do put a raid controller between them and the OS.

Still though, it is generally accepted that a 2xRaid0 SSD setup w/o TRIM will still be faster than a solitary non-raid SSD w/TRIM enabled so long as you are comparing the same SSD's in the two configurations.

+1

In addition, Anand alluded to Intel being able to fix the TRIM issue on RAID via a driver update. Hopefully, this is the case.

they will make it work if you use their raid on their drive, which is pretty reasonable assumption.

however, it is not an easy task.

 

[jgigz]

With mechanical drives, it makes sense to use a seperate HDD for games or other heavily used, semi disk-intensive applications. With SSDs, would there be any practical benefit from such setup?

currently I have 3 HDDs. 1 250gb for OS, 1 250gb for games, and a 640gb for storage. If i bought a single SLC or MLC indilinx SSD and installed both the OS and games to it, would it run noticeably slower than say an indilinx SSD for OS and indilinx SSD for games?

 

[Ben90]

Nope; it would run just as speedy... i would still like having 2 mostly for organizational purposes, and the fact that i reinstall windows like once a month lol