SSD Pole question [Archive]

Dirthead

11-18-10, 02:56 PM

Posting a pole....

Which would be better,Running two 120GB in raid0 or one 240GB SSD

ragejg

11-18-10, 03:01 PM

So long as you have a way to backup your content and important files, a RAID 0 setup is optimal. Performance does scale well as far as I know.

Redeemed

11-18-10, 03:03 PM

So long as you have a way to backup your content and important files, a RAID 0 setup is optimal. Performance does scale well as far as I know.

This.

Roadhog

11-18-10, 03:57 PM

depends on what youre doing, raid 0 doesn't help load times much. If you are doing photo/movie editing then I would go for the raid 0.

Dirthead

11-18-10, 03:58 PM

naw mainly gaming

Roadhog

11-18-10, 04:00 PM

naw mainly gaming

Then get the one 240gb one. If you need more space you can always add another.

Roadhog

11-18-10, 04:24 PM

I'm not gonna do RAID 0 again. No TRIM support.

Plus a single SSD is fast enough as a boot disk and for games (SSD boost is very minimal for games anyway).

You don't need TRIM, garbage collection works good.

Dirthead

11-18-10, 05:16 PM

slawter what was your problem with running in raid 0?

Bad thing is i can get two 120's for less then 1 240Gbs...

Roadhog

11-18-10, 05:45 PM

slawter what was your problem with running in raid 0?

Bad thing is i can get two 120's for less then 1 240Gbs...

Then do that. You won't notice a difference except benchmarks and file transfers.

Dirthead

11-20-10, 09:04 PM

well you all think i should wait and see if i can find a good deal on the black Friday/Monday sales or just order one now and be done with it?

Viral

11-20-10, 09:58 PM

Voted no RAID. I wouldn't go RAID again unless you saved quite a bit of money on 2 x 120GB drives vs. 1 240GB.