How good is TRIM?

[Josh Weston]

I'm soon going to be buying all the components for my upcoming build. A part of that build was the 240gb Mushkin Chronos. Now, with Aria's amazing deal on the 120gb SSD it's actually cheaper to buy two 120gb drives and RAID0 them together.

I am aware of the huge performance benefit that this would accomplish, but I am also aware that you would lose TRIM support.

Just how needed is this?

Thankyou!

 

[Jadarite]

or theres Corsair 120GB Force Series £96.99 @dabs

 

[repton]

I'm in the same boat mate. I bought two 120gb drives last month but I've not had the courage to raid them yet. It's plenty fast as it is but I'm wary about losing trim support.

From what I know you can get away with it so long as you allow your pc to idle, which afaik triggers the drives controller to start garbage collection. I'd also like to hear others opinions on this since if I can get the confidence up i'd raid 0 them rather quickly hehe. I'm not really clued up on SSD's yet though.

 

[jonnyfgm]

i've had my 2 intel drives in raid 0 for nearly a year, i ran a benchmark tool the other day and they're still pretty much hitting their theoretical maximums

 

[thehidecheck]

Most modern ssd's have software that serve pretty much the same function. Raid it up man.

 

[Josh Weston]

Hmm.

This has given me somewhat more confidence.

If any performance hit was seen, would formatting the drives restore them to their past glory?

 

[Alexander Lee]

Intel might be bringing trim support for raid 0 anyway... I will be going with raid soon hopefully

 

[airdeano]

if TRIM is a concern, the kingston drives have a self-collector on board in a idle situation. so in a RAID

config in win7 you wont have to worry about TRIM aspect. so RAID away!

airdeano