RAID0 New and Old SSD

[Remmy]

Hi people

I've had an OCZ Vertex IV 128GB SSD since about October, and now they're on sale for £72 and I'd really like to get a new one and stick them in a RAID0 array.

I'm sure it's not ideal to use a new and a used drive together, but would it still be okay to put them in an array with each other?

Oh and yes I know OCZ is shit yeah yeah, but mine works, and it comes with a 5 year warranty so IDC.

 

[jamesriley94]

Hi people

I've had an OCZ Vertex IV 128GB SSD since about October, and now they're on sale for £72 and I'd really like to get a new one and stick them in a RAID0 array.

I'm sure it's not ideal to use a new and a used drive together, but would it still be okay to put them in an array with each other?

Oh and yes I know OCZ is shit yeah yeah, but mine works, and it comes with a 5 year warranty so IDC.

You lose TRIM support if you RAID them (I'm pretty sure this is still the case), and so they'll wear out a lot faster.

Maybe download SSDlife and see the status of yours?

Also, RAIDing SSDs in real world performance doesn't actually make any difference at all really.

You'd be better off just getting a 256gb one to be honest.

 

[Remmy]

You lose TRIM support if you RAID them (I'm pretty sure this is still the case), and so they'll wear out a lot faster.

Maybe download SSDlife and see the status of yours?

Also, RAIDing SSDs in real world performance doesn't actually make any difference at all really.

You'd be better off just getting a 256gb one to be honest.

That's a shame, I had my hopes set on getting my boot time down quite a bit :/

I don't need the extra capacity really, it was more for the speed boost

 

[jamesriley94]

Really?

What do you find a single SSD slow...?
You should be booting in under 20 seconds after the BIOS messages?

 

[Remmy]

Really?

What do you find a single SSD slow...?
You should be booting in under 20 seconds after the BIOS messages?

Well yeah after BIOS messages it's on the desktop in 15 seconds, but you know, that just means there's 14 more reasons to make it even quicker

 

[SPS]

TBH mate I don't think RAID0 is going to shave much if anything off those boot times.

 

[S_I_N]

Well yeah after BIOS messages it's on the desktop in 15 seconds, but you know, that just means there's 14 more reasons to make it even quicker

your not going to get faster boot times with raid since the raid bios has to load as well as boards bios it will actually slow it down from push button to desktop your 14seconds will be about the same.

 

[remember300]

if you was desperate for speed you could take off the bios boot and do a quick boot, although the hassle of getting back into bios is apparently a nightmare.

 

[Bartacus]

I have a RAID0 SSD setup and these guys are right, it doesn't add to the boot times. I'm up about the same time as you. RAID0 on SSDs is really only good for epeen benchmarking I think, and maybe *slightly* better load times for Steam games.

EDIT: on my system TRIM is enabled properly as far as I can tell.