Question: Im seeing people using SSDs for RAID-0 and getting excellent improvements in read/write rates.
But now there is a good opportunity to acquire another SSD Force Corsair F60 identical to mine. I’m thinking of buying another and bind the two to RAID-0.
Is it worth it? I’m getting about 285MB/s of reading rate, the system boots within seconds, applications explode on the screen without choking.
Will I gain even more performance or should I just increase my system and applications space from 60 to 120GB? (which would be great, I could have several games installed in addition to programs)
I also read that this SSD is ideal for leaving AHCI enabled on the mainboard, so I left it. But if put it into RAID, will I lose this feature? It has the options “IDE”, “AHCI”, “RAID / XHD”. Or does that even have anything to do with it?
Answer: RAID 0 should get you faster reads and writes, but you do you really need that? ?Note that if you lose one drive of a RAID 0 pair, you just lost the volume, where with with two drives operating independently, you’ve still got the data on the good drive. ?
Also, note that without special driver support, you’ll be giving up TRIM support on the array.
I think RAID implies AHCI, on Intel boards at least. ?