anyone running vista with SSDs in RAID0?
22 March 2010, 11:05 AM
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anyone running vista with SSDs in RAID0?
Have ordered a couple of "Corsair Extreme Series X32 32GB Solid State Drive" for the g/f's pc
Is anyone using SSDs in raid0 in their daily pc use? what do you find to be better/worse/surprising?
Is anyone using SSDs in raid0 in their daily pc use? what do you find to be better/worse/surprising?
22 March 2010, 05:47 PM
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lol, I guess not.
These ssds are Crucial X32 32GB. claimed 220mb/s read and 170mb/s write.
anyone interested to see some benchmark results when they're installed? It'll be on vista 64 i'm afraid.
These ssds are Crucial X32 32GB. claimed 220mb/s read and 170mb/s write.
anyone interested to see some benchmark results when they're installed? It'll be on vista 64 i'm afraid.
22 March 2010, 06:25 PM
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anyone interested to see some benchmark results when they're installed? It'll be on vista 64 i'm afraid.
I run vista on RAID0 array with a pair of HDs on vista x64. And its certainly alot faster booting than with a single HD. So SSD in RAID0 should be pretty rapid.
For comparisons sake, here's what it benchmarks at in RAID 0 vs single drive (using identical drives - nothing special; Samsung HD200HJ that I picked up for £25 each):
RAID0
Single drive:
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23 March 2010, 02:12 PM
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I got a single 80Gb SSD, it's quick enough, TRIM works and the Raid0 won't fail leaving me in the poo !
The Sata connection is the bottle-neck anyway, unless you upgrade to SATA 6 Gb. even then you'll need compatible SSD to suit....
IMHO
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The Sata connection is the bottle-neck anyway, unless you upgrade to SATA 6 Gb. even then you'll need compatible SSD to suit....
IMHO
dunx
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23 March 2010, 02:55 PM
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Surely it is 3Gb/s + 3Gb/s (2 SSDs in RAID0) ?
That's a max of 750MB/s - not going to happen obviously as this is software raid, but it'll be more than 2 sata2 HDDs ;-)
They arrived today, so I'll put them in and post some HDTune grabs later.
they are so light and small
That's a max of 750MB/s - not going to happen obviously as this is software raid, but it'll be more than 2 sata2 HDDs ;-)
They arrived today, so I'll put them in and post some HDTune grabs later.
they are so light and small
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23 March 2010, 03:58 PM
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we should bash that BlkKnight 
real world speed will only show up for the g/f in boot up and application load. All her data is spread across 8 drives in 2 raid 5 arrays, which are comparatively pretty slow.
real world speed will only show up for the g/f in boot up and application load. All her data is spread across 8 drives in 2 raid 5 arrays, which are comparatively pretty slow.
23 March 2010, 06:08 PM
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Eight drives
I bet that rig's noisy.
Thats what is mainly turning me on to SSDs; silence. My current drives (above) are nearly silent (can't hear them read/write at all
). Most high speed HDs I've tested tend to rather clunky when accessing, so SSD would be the next step for me
Go on BlkKnight spill the beans
I bet that rig's noisy.
Thats what is mainly turning me on to SSDs; silence. My current drives (above) are nearly silent (can't hear them read/write at all
). Most high speed HDs I've tested tend to rather clunky when accessing, so SSD would be the next step for me Go on BlkKnight spill the beans
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23 March 2010, 10:41 PM
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Unfortunately, I can't find my pic's of when I used raid 1....
Here are some singles for comparison:
- This is running Vista x64 Ultimate
- Page file on another drive
- Temp files on another drive
Single Intel X25-M 80GB Generation 1 (No trim support)
- After 1 year of daily usage
- After a fresh wipe
Sorry, no write benchmarks.
Trim support hasn't bothered me that much, even if my drives supported it, I couldn't use it when in arrays or in my current case, all my drives are encrypted.
From what I have read, Vista is supposed to align your partitions correctly, my copy didn't. I did it manually. I also aligned it equal to the stripe size I used. Not sure if this made a difference though.
Here are some singles for comparison:
- This is running Vista x64 Ultimate
- Page file on another drive
- Temp files on another drive
Single Intel X25-M 80GB Generation 1 (No trim support)
- After 1 year of daily usage
- After a fresh wipe
Sorry, no write benchmarks.
Trim support hasn't bothered me that much, even if my drives supported it, I couldn't use it when in arrays or in my current case, all my drives are encrypted.
From what I have read, Vista is supposed to align your partitions correctly, my copy didn't. I did it manually. I also aligned it equal to the stripe size I used. Not sure if this made a difference though.
24 March 2010, 10:15 AM
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it's probably worth bringing windows down to size here 
Suz and I have the same mobo, chip and ram in our desktops.
the differences are that I run OSX Snow Leopard and she runs Vista 64 ultimate - a clean install too.
my primary hard drive is a 1tb baracuda.
I still boot to my desktop able to bring up safari/google.co.uk quicker than Suz's 400MB/s SSD + vista
and not just by a few seconds either.
she's thinking about win7 now.
Suz and I have the same mobo, chip and ram in our desktops.
the differences are that I run OSX Snow Leopard and she runs Vista 64 ultimate - a clean install too.
my primary hard drive is a 1tb baracuda.
I still boot to my desktop able to bring up safari/google.co.uk quicker than Suz's 400MB/s SSD + vista
and not just by a few seconds either.
she's thinking about win7 now.
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So last week,
I see Crucial have SATA 3 SSD's on the market, imagine two RAID'd with a suitable MoBo....
dunx
P.S. Chefdude as the resident guru,
, how hard is it to get the Apple OS up and running on my PC ? ( I have the OE discs already).
I see Crucial have SATA 3 SSD's on the market, imagine two RAID'd with a suitable MoBo....
dunx
P.S. Chefdude as the resident guru,
, how hard is it to get the Apple OS up and running on my PC ? ( I have the OE discs already).
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