2x160gb Intel SSD overkill??

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Just wondering as I have 2 drives right now and was just wondering if I raid them up would that be overkill?? Or should I go with a 250gb SSD??
 
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Well... a 256GB SSD would be preferable to a pair of 160GB drives in RAID 0, simply because TRIM does not currently work for SSDs in RAID arrays.
 
Only since you have them would I say to RAID 0 them. Trim would be fine and all that, but that is a pretty [H]ard setup.


And make a backup.
 
lol well all my data are on 2x 2tb drives anyhow. How is the Corsair P256 SSD??
 
Up to you really, unless you are going to be transfering alot of data to and from the SSD Raid 0 won't improve how quick it feels from a single drive.
 
you'll get faster reads and writes on the dual drive setup than a single drive, but you'll have to wire up another drive, and you lose TRIM. Do these drives support GC? Sell them and get Vertex's? 1.50 supports GC + TRIM.
 
That seems a bit extreme, considering that we should have RAID drivers that support TRIM showing up eventually... As for whether it's overkill, if you've got no other use for 'em then I guess not. As an OS drive I'd take even one of the Intel drives over a Corsair P256... You could always just use them independently 'till RAID drivers are updated as well, just one more drive letter to manage during installs.
 
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