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Probably not.
Why not do a little research?
You're more likely to have problems with two drives than one.
RAID adds complexity, extra latency and calculation for your computer in general.
Add a second drive and migrate part of your data to it with softlinks or other means might be a better solution than RAID.
I like your input, but perhaps you'll indulge me by fleshing it out?
Well for one I believe that on most motherboards you lose TRIM while in Raid. Other than that I'm not sure what the hangup is.
The difference is that you asked different people about different technologies. "Everyone" is hyperbole and refers to different sets. Really, you should ask yourself the same questions about both mechanical drives and SSDs in RAID0. Bandwidth only matters for sustained transfers. Usually, drives aren't doing sustained transfers -- unless you've got some particular application where you are doing sustained transfers.I'm really confused.
When I asked about RAID 0 in regards to HDD's, all anyone ever said was "Yeah, you'll get twice the bandwidth. Go for it."
Whenever I ask about RAID 0 in regards to SSD's.. suddenly everyone has a billion questions.
What's the difference?
The P67 chipset does support TRIM on RAID volumes, but the BIOS has to support it, too. You'll have to figure out if your BIOS does or not. (Searching and reading by yourself is doing research. Asking others for help is not.) TRIM is important if you write to your drives and consistent write performance is important to you. If you're reading always (or, at least, almost always) then you don't need to worry about it.So.. if I R0 two M4's on a P67 I lose TRIM? And.. is that important?
The difference is that you asked different people about different technologies. "Everyone" is hyperbole and refers to different sets. Really, you should ask yourself the same questions about both mechanical drives and SSDs in RAID0. Bandwidth only matters for sustained transfers. Usually, drives aren't doing sustained transfers -- unless you've got some particular application where you are doing sustained transfers.
Anyone who thinks the negative issues or risks outweigh the benefit realized for that advantage in their application.Well, yeah, I do a lot of encoding and rendering. I don't think the SSD is a bottleneck, but who can argue with 500MB/s+ of write bandwidth?
Anyone who thinks the negative issues or risks outweigh the benefit realized for that advantage in their application.
You don't have to guess.Are you going to keep me guessing for what those negative issues are risks are?
You don't have to guess.
SO fucking sick of hearing the 'There's no reason to RAID0 SSDs, you won't notice the performance difference' argument from people who have never done it in the first place.
that's plenty for your average consumer situation.
Two words: Confirmation bias
aka: there is *zero* need to do RAID0 SSDs unless you need uber bandwidth for something that may need it like video editing.
virtually all new SSD will do at least 500MB/sec reads, that's nearly saturating SATA3 speeds. that's plenty for your average consumer situation.
Or, you could try researching it. Some of the answers are already here in this thread.Since I don't know, I would have to guess.
RAID 0 128GB will give you more sequential read and write speed, and better queued depth performance. 1 256GB will give you better latency, boot and application load speed.I have an M4 128GB.
I'm wondering whether I should get another one and RAID 0 them..
Or sell it and get an M4 256GB.
Thanks.
Is OP serious with this?
The "RAID 0" + "SSD" question gets asked at LEAST once a week, and the OP has enough nerve to complain when others don't jump at the bit to answer this for the 1000th time this year alone? It's called the search button, use it.
Oh, and just in case:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=raid+0+ssd
RAID 0 128GB will give you more sequential read and write speed, and better queued depth performance. 1 256GB will give you better latency, boot and application load speed.
If you have a 7 series or newer Intel chipset (Intel OPROM 11.2), and you create the array with the Intel chipset, then SSD's will be TRIM'd under a RAID configuration. If you are using an add-on controller for RAID, then you will need to look at their documentation on whether or not the TRIM command is passed along.Except.. what about TRIM?
If you have a 7 series or newer Intel chipset (Intel OPROM 11.2), and you create the array with the Intel chipset, then SSD's will be TRIM'd under a RAID configuration. If you are using an add-on controller for RAID, then you will need to look at their documentation on whether or not the TRIM command is passed along.
I'm using P67. Bummer.
I'm using P67. Bummer.
Drop a modified OROM into a copy of your BIOS, flash it, and BAM... TRIM in RAID0 on P67...
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6477/trim-raid0-ssd-arrays-work-with-intel-6series-motherboards-too
Did it with my Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 and it's worked fantabulously for several months.
If you use them for an OS drive, it might run slightly slower because it needs to load the RAID controller as well.
Several others have been enumerated in this thread.Wow. So, with this in mind is there ANY reason not to R0 two SSD's?
Several others have been enumerated in this thread.