About a month ago I finally decided to upgrade my boot drive from a 2.5 inch HDD to a pair of SSDs. The noise difference was not so much the driving force as the performance difference (for once). Here are a pair of Intel G2 80Gb SSDs in raid 0. I put them in a Patriot Convoy so that the SSDs won't just be rattling around in my case.
SSD internals
Ready to be put into the Patriot Convoy
In they go
Power on
500Gb 7200rpm storage drive performance
SSD Raid 0 performance
edit: Thanks xev for pointing that out. It seems like the images only work for me that's why I didn't notice . This should be fixed now.
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That is correct. Trim is not supported but I feel the raid 0 outweighs the lack of trim. For trim to be supported on raid arrays, the raid controller as well as the ssd need to support it first. To my knowledge no raid controllers support trim yet. You cannot disable raid and manually trim each drive individually either. You can however disable raid and upgrade each drive's firmware without data loss.lawrencesha wrote:Running those Intel SSD on RAID, wouldn't that disable the TRIM command on the drives? Unless they are G1 which doesn't support TRIM in the 1st place.