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?

I was wondering about this, but was put off because the TRIM facility won't work with RAID on Win 7 apparently, not sure about Vista.

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.

Yup, would like to see the benchmarks, they should be impressive. :thumb:

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
http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k3...igabitmobo.jpg

Single drive:
http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k3...G_HD200HJ2.png

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

dunx

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 :eek:

http://lanse.co.uk/images/perc8m.jpg

My little array :)

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.

Eight drives :eek:

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 :cool: ). Most high speed HDs I've tested tend to rather clunky when accessing, so SSD would be the next step for me :thumb:

Go on BlkKnight spill the beans :p

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
http://www.dspnet.co.uk/images/HDTun...x1-Used-1Y.png

- After a fresh wipe
http://www.dspnet.co.uk/images/HDTun...G-x1-Wiped.png

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.

Just seen the new drivers for the Intel ICH's, looks like they support Trim in raid arrays now :o

Time to buy some G2's :D

This is the first run, not quite set up yet...

https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2734...e06ec0b9_o.jpg

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 :D

and not just by a few seconds either.

she's thinking about win7 now.

i'll do another SSD benchmark this weekend

g/f wants Windows 7, so i've ordered 64 bit pro

and this is with Windows 7
https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4010...9948e828_o.jpg

So last week, ;)

I see Crucial have SATA 3 SSD's on the market, imagine two RAID'd with a suitable MoBo.... :eek:

dunx

P.S. Chefdude as the resident guru, :notworthy, how hard is it to get the Apple OS up and running on my PC ? ( I have the OE discs already).

dunx

re osx, it depends on your motherboard. your best chances are with a Gigabyte core2duo/quad motherboard. what have you got?

ASUS P5K-E IIRC....

Cheers,

dunx

P.S. I'm tempted to try a cheap AMD hexa-core/SATA 3/USB3 solution ? ? ?