Kingston v+ 100 ssd

[larkva]

The new Kingston SSDNow V+100 also has an enhanced ‘always-on’ garbage collection feature, which cleanses redundant data from the drive to prevent performance degradation and maintains the drive over its life cycle. Since the garbage collection scheme operates independently from the OS, it works with both modern, TRIM-supporting systems such as Windows® 7, as well as older legacy OS’ such as Windows Vista® and XP that do not support TRIM. This means the drive can maintain optimal performance levels without additional upkeep costs or manual software maintenance.

Does this mean you can raid them, and still get use of the garbage system?

[AMDFTW]

nah cos u lose trim

[tinytomlogan]

Im not sure about that dude but I will ask. Ive actually just got a V+ 100 aswell but Ill ask Monday. If the answer is yes Ill get another one

[larkva]

Originally Posted by tinytomlogan

Im not sure about that dude but I will ask. Ive actually just got a V+ 100 aswell but Ill ask Monday. If the answer is yes Ill get another one

Thanks Tom

[Aria_RawZ]

Have to say, I'm liking these new Kingston SSDs. 4K randoms are a bit dyer but other than that, there great. Regarding RAID, i think i read somewhere leaving them on idle for 15mins or so means GC kicks in still, but i wouldn't quote me on that. RAID is a dodgy area with SSDs.

[Dewinte]

It'd be logical that if garbage control works independent of the OS then RAID will also have no effect on it, just wondering if with striped data is it could mistake a stripe block as part of the redundant data. That's my question, and other than that I can see no reason why RAID would interfere with it.

A quick search and users report that before garbage control RAID 0 SSD's would degrade without TRIM as we know. Then post garbage control, through new drives or firmware users report that there is no degradation in performance apart from those attributed to having slightly full drives. So from those unofficial reports I'd say as long as they have independent garbage control then yes you can RAID them, bit of searching and the information is there. Just now there's a lot of people without GC or have read about things pre-GC bashing those who say it works in RAID and that can add to the confusion, but it seem it really does work.

[tinytomlogan]

Right the GC does work in raid. Ive got a second 256GB drive arriving tomorrow, its a bit busy atm but the first week or so in December we should have the review live.

[F-alienware]

Hmm this is all incredibly interesting. This I need to see

[larkva]

Thanks Tom, I'am looking forward to the review

[Dewinte]

Btw from what I've seen, for GC to be effective you have to leave the SSD's on. Meaning they need to be idle, but not not allowed to sleep or low power kinda thing so that GC will kick in and the length of time for GC to perform it's duty well depends on the amount of data on the drive and the amount of writes and deletes performed since the last GC but also on the aggressiveness of the GC that the card uses. If that makes sense.. so some cards to maintain optimum operation may require you to leave them idle for a whole night once a week, assuming your drive is 60% full and your daily use makes X writes and deletes etc. Then another card in the same scenario with a less aggressive GC might require 2 nights a week to keep everything tip top. This is just equivalence in time just to give an idea. Things average out if you leave them idle for lengths of time each day, but yea in RAID without TRIM just relying on GC then for GC to be fully effective it'll take time on idle .