SSD sata3 in raid 0?

moebius · 01-10-2012, 11:11 AM

I know it has been ages since I have been on. I left the tech world 6 years ago to become a building contractor.

That does not mean I do not still have strong computer skills. It just means that my life has taken an analog turn.

I am in the thrashings of building a new gamer.

I have bought a z68 intel chipset mobo.

the asus p8z68 pro gen 3 to be exact.
the i7 2600k unlocked cpu
a geforce gtx 560 ti
a corsair 1866 16gb 4 pack
and 2 corsair f60 sata3 drives
windows 7 pro 64

Now usually I would throw some hard drives into my machine in raid 0 for speed and not worry about raid crashes using some cloud storage for backup.

With the sata 3 ssds, I am wondering if I even need to do a raid 0 or should I just put em in there?

NE who

I will post benchmarks both ways.

ttfn

Möbius

Georules · 01-10-2012, 12:22 PM

So you are just hoping to raid for speed? SSD's write in a more intricate way than old platter disks did, so I'm not sure striping would be a good idea for performance. I think you'd be better off just slapping them all in there and using them as-is.

I'm very interested to see benchmarks in both configurations. It is certainly a bad idea to use ssd's with any kind of raid that involves parity, but I can't find anything on ssd raid 0 performance.

Flunk · 01-10-2012, 05:39 PM

You would be better with one SSD with double the capacity. Striping them will reduce random read and write performance (which is what SSDs are really good at). In addition the smaller capacities of most SSDs are slower than the higher capacity ones because less of the channels are populated.

The bigest plus you get from RAID 0 is better sustained sequential performance and if you're using good quality SATA 3 SSDs that won't be a problem at all. I have a previous gen Vertex 2 and it still seems lightning quick. I have a system similar to yours (2500k, Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UDH3). Get one 120GB drive instead of two 60s.

Good choice on the Sandy Bridge, mine overclocks to the moon.

lowlight · 01-13-2012, 04:16 AM

Not to mention you will lose TRIM support which is pretty important

01-10-2012, 11:11 AM	#1
moebius 3NDL355 7\/\/!573D 3\/!L Join Date: May 2002 Location: Annapolis D.C. Baltimore Posts: 1,054	SSD sata3 in raid 0? I know it has been ages since I have been on. I left the tech world 6 years ago to become a building contractor. That does not mean I do not still have strong computer skills. It just means that my life has taken an analog turn. I am in the thrashings of building a new gamer. I have bought a z68 intel chipset mobo. the asus p8z68 pro gen 3 to be exact. the i7 2600k unlocked cpu a geforce gtx 560 ti a corsair 1866 16gb 4 pack and 2 corsair f60 sata3 drives windows 7 pro 64 Now usually I would throw some hard drives into my machine in raid 0 for speed and not worry about raid crashes using some cloud storage for backup. With the sata 3 ssds, I am wondering if I even need to do a raid 0 or should I just put em in there? NE who I will post benchmarks both ways. ttfn Möbius __________________ Original music by DJ Moebius available on [][]Fire Cell Productions[][]!!! DIGITAL []D [] []V[] []D

01-10-2012, 05:39 PM	#3
Flunk Henshin a go go baby! Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Toronto, ON, Canada Posts: 4,791	Re: SSD sata3 in raid 0? You would be better with one SSD with double the capacity. Striping them will reduce random read and write performance (which is what SSDs are really good at). In addition the smaller capacities of most SSDs are slower than the higher capacity ones because less of the channels are populated. The bigest plus you get from RAID 0 is better sustained sequential performance and if you're using good quality SATA 3 SSDs that won't be a problem at all. I have a previous gen Vertex 2 and it still seems lightning quick. I have a system similar to yours (2500k, Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UDH3). Get one 120GB drive instead of two 60s. Good choice on the Sandy Bridge, mine overclocks to the moon. __________________ Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'Value must be 1 or below' in \www\hardcoreware.net\forum\index.php:623 Stack trace: #0 \www\hardcoreware.net\forum\index.php(12): checkNum(28) #1 {main} thrown in \www\hardcoreware.net\forum\index.php on line 623 Last edited by Flunk; 01-10-2012 at 05:43 PM.

01-13-2012, 04:16 AM	#4
lowlight 37% More Evil! Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Hong Kong Posts: 13,076	Re: SSD sata3 in raid 0? Not to mention you will lose TRIM support which is pretty important __________________ You do read our reviews, right?

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