Raiding Intel 80gb ssd

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Limp Gawd
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I'm planning on raiding 2 intels 80gb ssds. I read you lose trim when raiding them but there is a garbage collection program that can be run when shutting off the computer. I tried searching, but most results are not answering my question.

Also would this garbage collection work on the Gen1 Intel 80gb drives?

Thanks.
 
Currently only the default MS controller drivers in Win7 pass the TRIM command to the drive. If you install other drivers like the Intel Matrix Storage Manager drivers, or if you have a controller that isn't supported by the default drivers, TRIM simply will not work right now. Hopefully controller manufacturers (including Intel) will get around to updating their drivers to support TRIM pretty soon.

http://www.intel.com/go/ssdtoolbox/ is the Toolbox app you're referring to. It doesn't support the G1 or RAID arrays. http://www.scribd.com/doc/21678605/Intel-SSD-Toolbox-FAQ
 
Vista does not support TRIM? If not, I guess I just install the Toolbox and the Intel AHCI drivers?
 
InvisiBill said:
Currently only the default MS controller drivers in Win7 pass the TRIM command to the drive. If you install other drivers like the Intel Matrix Storage Manager drivers, or if you have a controller that isn't supported by the default drivers, TRIM simply will not work right now. Hopefully controller manufacturers (including Intel) will get around to updating their drivers to support TRIM pretty soon.

http://www.intel.com/go/ssdtoolbox/ is the Toolbox app you're referring to. It doesn't support the G1 or RAID arrays. http://www.scribd.com/doc/21678605/Intel-SSD-Toolbox-FAQ
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Aww... Hopefully it's just a firmware upgraded needed to get TRIM for RAID. I'll hold of a little longer.

Thanks for the response.
 
X25-M G1 drives will never get TRIM and they'll never be compatible w/the Toolbox, Intel has stated as much... It's pretty much a dick move on their part and I'm surprised it didn't generate more bad PR amongst early adopters but I guess a lot of people waited for TRIM support (and the G2s) before jumping on the SSD bandwagon. Vista will never support TRIM as well AFAIK...

If you own G1 drives your only solution to restore performance would be to take the array offline, use something like HDDErase to wipe them, re-build the array, then restore your OS from a backup.
 
Also would this garbage collection work on the Gen1 Intel 80gb drives?
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I have two 80GB G1 drives in RAID0 and garbage collection works the same as it does on single drives.

Like Impulse says, there will be no more improvements to the G1 drives.
 
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