SSD Help Please

[phOkaz]

Are all SATAIII SSDs SATAII compatible?

I am looking at these 2 drives specifically:

Samsung 830 Series 128 GB
Crucial CT128M4SSD2 M4 128GB

I want to stick two of them raid0 in my wifes older PC with SATAII. Thanks in advance for your help !

 

[Damar]

Yes they'll work fine.

 

[phOkaz]

Great, thx

 

[Island]

Are all SATAIII SSDs SATAII compatible?

I am looking at these 2 drives specifically:

Samsung 830 Series 128 GB
Crucial CT128M4SSD2 M4 128GB

I want to stick two of them raid0 in my wifes older PC with SATAII. Thanks in advance for your help !

Unless you can get a great deal on the 2 ssd's, I would just go with 1 large ssd drive. You are not going to notice any difference in every day usage running a raid 0 array, versus using 1 large ssd.

 

[phOkaz]

Unless you can get a great deal on the 2 ssd's, I would just go with 1 large ssd drive. You are not going to notice any difference in every day usage running a raid 0 array, versus using 1 large ssd.

Added bandwidth and channels, it will be more efficient. She does more then play games and browse the web. But thank you for your thoughts.

 

[Nexillus]

With putting it in raid 0, you are increasing the chance of a disk failure and secondly with it already going on a SATA II, you will not see the full benefit due to channel bandwidths. You might as well do one bigger 240GB or 256GB if you were to add this to a SATA III would not have this bandwidth restrictions.

 

[hotcrandel]

I used to have SSD's in RAID. I think its more hassle than its worth, the speed difference is only really noticeable with benchmarks.

 

[Brahmzy]

So much fail in this thread.

 

[phOkaz]

My question was, are all SATAIII SSDs SATAII compatible. Thanks for the other input though

As far as all the " doubling your chances of drive failure ! "

The average annual drive failure rate is : 0.70%-0.78%.

So the odds are : 1.48% that your system will fail in RAID0 (with 2 drives) versus 0.74% not in RAID.