Sony Z RAID SSDs slow now?

The new crop of SSDs are blazingly fast. Faster than the dual RAID SSDs in my Z and nipping on the heels of the quad RAID. Would it be possible to shoehorn 2 of these into my Sony Z and run then as a dual RAID. That would be crazy fast.

Patriot Pyro SE SATA III Solid State Drive Review - HotHardware

 

Don't think our mobos can support Sata III.

 

I'm going to assume you're talking Z11-13.

You can put 1.8" ssd's in there without the case.
Comparing my C300's in my Z11 to the Pyro SE

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I'd say the Sony Z11 platform is still capable of very fast speeds.

Also, stock Z SSD's are by no means slow. Not sure how much experiance you have with other SSD's but I can almost promise you that you wouldn't notice a difference between the newest sata3 SSD's and what you have in your Z. The best bet with SSD's is to place priority on a drive with a good stability track record (Intel, Samsung) and size (you can never have enough!) over benchmarks. Drives from Intel G2's on up to the latest and greatest can vary all over the place in benchmarks but in real world use, you'd be hard pressed to notice a difference unless you have a workload that highly depends on IOPS of a drive.

 

You seem to have picked the slowest benchmark for the Pyro amongst the set.

The following is more representative of most of the benchmarks in that review for the Pyro.




It bests the dual RAID in the Z13. It would more better if we could compare the Z13 and the Pyro using the same benchmark.

 

Good point, but so is Qwaarjet's that, paraphrasing, once you're at sequential R/W speeds over 400 mb/s, differences are harder to perceive. It's all good for the users, and mostly the spec junkies will appreciate the rarified 500-900 mb/s rarified air.

 

^Actually it's quite noticeable for my work in VS.

 

You know, I meant to go back and edit that post to end with..."unless you are using it for envelope-pushing applications."

I would also update by saying that I recently bought a never-used "open box" and clearly not defective Z13 with mid-hi specs (i7-640, 256GB SSD, 8GB, WWAN, the rest stock) and the SSDs are slower than any I have experienced in a Z1 (have owned 6!). They test at about 100 mb/s slower seq. read/write than the best dual-128GB models I have seen (about 300/275, other speeds comensurately lower) and I have done all of the "speed tweaks" that are conventionally mentioned.

And I am really feeling the difference in speed, at only a 25% reduction. So, I guess I need to reverse myself entirely!

BTW, seeking out ideas for getting the performance up to where it should be. There appears to be nothing wrong with the SSDs (per Hard Disk Sentinel - an excellent tool, btw and other utilities) and everything else seems like new car, er, laptop tight and snappy.

So, OP, I think you got it mostly right. Still, we are spoiled. They are still very fast.