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    RAID mSATA SSD with SATAIII SSD on Clevo p150em. Possible? Worthwhile?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by sevennus, Nov 23, 2012.

  1. sevennus

    sevennus Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm going to be buying a clevo p150em, and I'm trying to figure out if it would be possible to stripe a 256g mSATA crucial m4 with a SATAIII 256g crucial m4 for increased speeds. I'm sorry if there are already posts on this, but I've been looking for a while and can't seem to find anybody with the same question.

    Is this possible to do? If it is, does it have a performance increase that is worth the trouble? I don't need the extra space for my boot/apps drive, so if there's no tangible speed increase, i'll just stick with one SSD.

    What do you guys think?
     
    sevennus, Nov 23, 2012
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  2. tilleroftheearth

    tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...

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    The speed increase will be in benchmarks and transferring files to another RAID0 array that is equal or faster than the one you create.

    In real world use; if you're doing video editing (especially RAW, uncompressed 4K 'RED' files, for example), you'll use and appreciate the increased performance (again: assuming you have an equal or faster array to transfer your finished files to...).

    On the other hand: again - in real world use - you may have a system that limits the mSATA to SATA2 speeds (not SATA3). I can't verify that or not from the 'detailed specifications' I found here (see link below...), but if true then the RAID0 array you create will be slower than simply using the SATA3 M4 SSD in the 'normal' SATA port.

    See:
    CLEVO - Products


    If you want the fastest 512GB SSD you can buy now (nominal... actual size will be ~476GB once formatted with NTFS) and keep it as fast as possible no matter what your use (even slightly faster than the 256GB capacity of the same Model) then you want the Crucial M4 512GB drive.


    As for 'is it worth the trouble'?

    NO. It is not.

    (Unless you're doing RAW uncompressed video, as previously stated).


    Good luck.
     
    tilleroftheearth, Nov 24, 2012
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