Advice on moving aging system to SSD raid0

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bacon612

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Hey guys. I am looking to grab two ssds like the OCZ ARC 100 drives and replace two mechanical drives I use to boot from that are presently in Raid0 on my ICH10. My mobo is a gigabyte x58 UD4P and has SATAII ports on it.

I am presently using crossfire in 16x16x and have the last pcie 8x slot empty so I could use that to add a SataIII controller in. My question is, would I really loose out on a lot of speed if I just used the onboard ich10 with trim enabled to raid0 the ssd drives?

Any advice appreciated.
 
You probably won't notice the speed difference from SATA2 to SATA3 unless you do a lot of sequential file copies. I'd stick to the native SATA2 if I were you.

That said, just get a single larger capacity SSD instead of 2 smaller ones.

No need for RAID0 unless you're doing something out of the ordinary. The SSD is THAT fast.

Not sure about the OCZ ARC drives as I haven't heard anything about it.

Try Samsung 850 Pro/Evo or Crucial MX500?
 
I suppose the technicality that I am hung up on is this...

One 480 gig drive on the sataII will give me 275megs/s but raid 0 would at least be double that on the ICH10, no? This way i can get near sataIII speeds with two ssds.
 
Your call on that I guess, but you'll only see that speed differences when copying few, large files.

And in those situations, it's just a few extra seconds anyway.

I'd rather have a larger SSD that I can move to a new system next time vs two smaller ones I'll need to setup in RAID0 to "see" as a single drive.
 
So if your stuck on getting sata 3 speed get a basic controller and a single 480 still. Less likely to fail. Going from an had you're already going to very happy with the perormance of one ssd. Keep It Simple

I use an 840 Pro on sata 2 and it's quite adequate for speed needs. And I do regularly work with 840 evo's on Sata 3. No great jump in performance that I notice
 
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Thanks for the input, guys. Any flavor of sataIII controllers play nicely with gigabyte x58 mobos? I should be fine with one drive on the pcie 1x slot then, right?
 
Any flavor of sataIII controllers play nicely with gigabyte x58 mobos? I should be fine with one drive on the pcie 1x slot then, right?
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Just use the Intel ports and forget about sequential benchmarks that do not have any significance to most applications.
 
bacon612 said:
Thanks for the input, guys. Any flavor of sataIII controllers play nicely with gigabyte x58 mobos? I should be fine with one drive on the pcie 1x slot then, right?
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Just plug it into your motherboard. I have an 840 Evo hooked up to a P5Q motherboard with zero performance issues.
 
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