SSD's in RAID 0

Hey,

I have decided to bite the bullet and buy the MSI GX660r. However I am stuck weather I should either:

Buy 2 256gb C300 Crucial SSD drives, and put them in raid 0 for the performance

Buy 1 C300 SSD and one Seagate Momentus XT 500gb (the one with 4gb SSD)

Which one will perform best, will the 2 SSDs in raid 0 be spectacular in peformance? cos an extra $600 is a lot to spend on a drive, so I have to think this through.

So guys, persuade me.

P.S After looking at benchmarks for the C300, it seems I need 6.0gbps to use it to full capacity. Does anyone know if the MSI GX660r has this capability?

Peace out.

 

SSDs are fast enough that unless you're a benchmark junkie or someone with insane I/O usage that won't see the difference between a single SSD and two in RAID.

Get an SSD and a high-capacity HDD. Best of both worlds.

And no, the GX660R only has SATA II.

 

You would be better off buying the single SSD with the Seagate for storage because TRIM can't be done over a RAID-0 array.

 

Or buy two Seagate Momentus XT 500GB and put them in RAID.

It's a matter of how much you want to spend for a little extra performance, how much capacity do you need and what you do with your computer.

By the way if you're going SSD there is not much point in the C300 because it needs SATA III to really excel.

 

A single Crucial C300 SSD will have plenty of performance. You actually won't see that much of a performance benefit by putting two of these drives in RAID-0, because onboard RAID controllers max out at around 50,000 IOPS (a single SSD based off of the SandForce SF1200 controller has around 35,000 - 40,000 IOPS). So, stick with one SSD, and one storage drive.

Along those lines, I wouldn't even bother buying a Seagate Momentus XT for your storage drive. In a typical SSD + HDD configuration, you will load the SSD with things where load times actually matter - your OS, your applications, your games. Your mechanical HDD will be used to store content like videos, documents, files, etc. If you look at the usage pattern of the mechanical HDD, you'll either be using that drive for simple file copy operations or running video off of the drive - both of which do not benefit from a hybrid drive like the Seagate Momentus XT. If this scenario matches your usage pattern, then you'd be wasting your money on a Seagate Momentus XT - a simple 7200rpm mechanical hard drive would be a better choice.

 

Yes, not only that, but the Momentus XT will not be any faster than a regular 7200rpm drive with that kind of usage anyway.

 

I have dual C300's in my vaio Z, I decided against RAID 0 because of trim. Even without raid, my Z feels slightly smoother & faster than it did with the oem 128gb raid 0 setup.

 

I suggest 24 SSD's in RAID 0.

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Seriously though, SSDs in RAID 0 aren't worth the cost/risk. I would advise against it. Its the law of diminishing returns my friend!

 

We had someone on the forums who changed from using a single SSD to 2x Momentus XT in RAID. He said he couldn't notice any difference. Forgot what his name was, maybe someone remembers.

 

Pirx is the name.

 

Thanks Tiller. Pirx talks about his experiences here
http://forum.notebookreview.com/har...-much-half-much-space-ssd-vs-hybrid-xt-2.html

 

Just to not give a wrong impression, I was comparing the performance of my M6400 with dual XTs to the one of my M4500 with SSD. So the machines aren't quite identical, but the M4500 actually has a faster processor.

 

here's a screenshot of what you can expect raid0 to perform like without the trim feature.