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Agility Raid-0 or Sandforce???

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Triz08

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What do you guys and gals think I should do?

I am currently using an OCZ Agility SSD on the ICH10R Asus P6T mobo.

Buy 1 more OCZ Agility 120gb ssd and setup a raid-0 array?
Or...
Buy a new Sandforce OCZ Agility 2 / Vertex 2 and use my current Agility as a 2nd drive?

I would like my system to feel even more "snappy" and quick with response and load times if thats even possible, but am not sure if I would be better off with the new Sandforce controller ssd or a raid-0 Indilinx controller ssd.
 
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I would say another Agility. Sandforce controllers are only fast with easily compressible data.
 
I did this experiment with the Vertex LE and 120GB Vertex in raid 0.

Bottom line, raid 0 indilinx = better benchmarks but no real world noticible performance difference. Sandforce also benchmarks better, but not a significant speed upgrade over Indilinx real world.

I'm also defining real world usage as actually using a PC not 4K random read/ write benchmarks which people mistake for real world performance for some odd reason.
 
So sequential speeds are real world performance instead? That's all what seems tested on the link you provided; with an old version of CrystalDiskMark that does not test with multiple queue depth, required to get a random I/O benefit out of RAID0.

So i don't see anything good about these benchmarks, or anything that tells anything about real world performance. I thought you meant you did stopwatch tests; which are the best tests you can do if properly conducted.

Still you can be sure that Indilinx is about 10 times slower than an Intel, Sandforce or Micron SSD regarding non-sequential access.
 
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