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Originally Posted by Sean Webster 
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Originally Posted by Infinite Jest
I was on the prowl for a deal on one of the high performance SSDs to replace my Kingston V+100, but I managed to snag another one of the same drive off of eBay along with the whole upgrade kit dirt cheaply. So, I should be set for a few more months until crazy deals on the high capacity drives start rolling out. Will slapping the second one into raid 0 with my original drive only increase sequential speeds or should I expect to see any other benefits?
I was on the prowl for a deal on one of the high performance SSDs to replace my Kingston V+100, but I managed to snag another one of the same drive off of eBay along with the whole upgrade kit dirt cheaply. So, I should be set for a few more months until crazy deals on the high capacity drives start rolling out. Will slapping the second one into raid 0 with my original drive only increase sequential speeds or should I expect to see any other benefits?
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- 2X faster sequential reads/writes of the slowest drive (not really noticeable with SSDs).
- 2X space of the smallest drive.
Cons:
- No TRIM support for SSDs part of an array atm.
- RAID 0 only improves sequential performance which is generally not that useful and it also almost doubles your failure rate. (1 drive goes the array is lost and all data is gone, you need to have a backup of all the data on the array in case of a failure)
- Slightly slower boot time (The RAID controller needs to initialized after the BIOS does and that adds time to your boot time, usually 3-5 seconds slower)
Hmm well, if there's no TRIM support, I'll skip it and just use it as an independent drive. Thanks for the heads up.
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