Sandforce SSD in Raid 0

[mariachi76]

Hello,

I am thinking about making a raid 0 with two OCZ Vertex 3 120gb drives. I would use an onboard JMicron 36x 6GB/s SATA controller.

However, I am not sure if real-life performance is much better than with a single drive. Also the unability to use the strip command might be an issue. Is the garbage collection function of the Sandforce controllers equal to strip in terms of long-term performance?

Any experience with Vertex 3 or other ssd's with previous Sandforce controllers in a raid0?

Thanks, and best regards
mariachi76

 

[Falcon_CMH]

IMO stay away from the Sandforce controllers they all uptodate have performance issues and reliabilty issues. Maybe just maybe this new version is fixed but no one really knows yet. I highly recommend tried and true Intel or Crucial for RAID 0. Intel has the new gen. 3 ElmCrest 500 series out which are screaming fast. And Crucial is droping the gen. 3 400 Series out shortly.

 

[mariachi76]

Any other comments? Maybe rather personal experience or technically more sound information than just an opinion?

regards
mariachi76

 

[drescherjm]

The problems with sandforce controllers and their performance degradation have been discussed here dozens of times. Although not so much with Vertex 3 since its not been around that long.