Not happy with one SSD, would a second help?

[Ravynmagi]

I have a single 120GB Vertex SSD. This was an "upgrade" from two Velociraptors. Unfortunately it hasn't felt like much of an upgrade. It's probably a little bit faster, but barely noticeable.

Any Vertex owners know if I would see quicker OS startup and faster application loading if I added the second?

This would be on an ICH10R controller, so it shouldn't slow me down with just two of them.

 

[Logan321]

From what I've heard on the forum, 3 SSDs in raid0 is the sweet spot for blinding speed without slowdowns or stutters due to overloading the ICH10R. Certainly 2 would be better than one, possibly by close to a factor of 2x.

1 SSD is comparable to raided VRaptors, though it depends on the SSD. For me, capacity wins over storage, so I haven't bothered jumping on the "barely enough space to hold my MP3s" SSD bandwagon yet.

 

[DonDon]

I am currently running 4 X OCZ Solids on a Perc 5i controller and 3 X Warp V2s on ICH10R.

I've way over capped the Perc 5i on Reads at a bit under 400 MB/sec. Writes are a little more dicey to BM as the caching controller messes with the BM.

The best I can get out of the 3 Patriots is in the high 300 MB/sec, although I have not messed with tweaking that setup as much as the other one. From what I can see from other posts, I might have some headroom left on the ICH10 setup, but it would prolly not be noticeable in every day use.

Both have access times in the 2-3 ms range.

The main reason I went the the 3 and 4 drive setups was concern over write times. I figured I would minimize any stuttering with more drives and the caching controller.

I moved up from single drives, so both setups are the fastest drives I have ever used. Both setups take more time getting through the bios crap than loading windows.

so I haven't bothered jumping on the "barely enough space to hold my MP3s" SSD bandwagon yet.

So keep the MP3s on a separate data drive. They do not need the speed of SSDs.

Yeah my MP3 files are on a 8TB network share...

8 TB of MP3s, I didn't know that much music even existed. ;-)

Don

 

[drgnfang]

Yeah my MP3 files are on a 8TB network share...