Software Raid - Is it worth it? SSD's

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rive22

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I know nothing about software raid. My buddy and I want to throw 3 OCZ Vertex that we have lying here into an H55 i3 4.3ghz game box (no raid controller).

It runs Win7. Is software raid even a worthy option? Concerning speeds and whatnot? I guess we could easily swap the mobo for an H57/P55 but thought we'd tinker at this idea first.

What do you guys think?

Oh yeah, looking to do raid 0 of course. I can use cobian or acronis to do auto nightly quick image backups.
 
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I'd say just use the drives in a singular configuration until the hardware RAID solutions support TRIM.

The actual perceivable performance difference between a single SSD and two or three in RAID0 is nill. We're talking e-penis bragging rights here only. The only exception would be if you are using some REALLY cheap low capacity SSDs that have extremely low read/write rates.
 
It's just a game box so I'm not worried about TRIM, there will be enough free space left over to maintain performance. Don't care about bragging rights. I'm doing it for the fun of it because I feel like it. I think I'm just going to sell the board and grab an H57 on deal, for close to an even trade. I'm still curious about how this works though.

The loading speed advantage will be great especially in games like need for speed shift. The faster the box gets up and goes the more likely I am to use it.
 
rive22 said:
It's just a game box so I'm not worried about TRIM, there will be enough free space left over to maintain performance. Don't care about bragging rights. I'm doing it for the fun of it because I feel like it. I think I'm just going to sell the board and grab an H57 on deal, for close to an even trade. I'm still curious about how this works though.

The loading speed advantage will be great especially in games like need for speed shift. The faster the box gets up and goes the more likely I am to use it.
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Yeah, if you're going to do RAID0 you should go for a hardware solution especially if the cost is negligible.

And 'For the fun of it' is a perfectly valid reason. :)
 
You will have to leave space unpartitioned/unused (thus not part of your C partition) to prevent massive performance degradation over time. Reserving 20-25% to be unused as extra spare space would be a ideal compromise.
 
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