SSD RAID 0 - Slow

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Klynt

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Hello, I just recently got my first RAID 0 setup going with two Intel G2 80 SSDs. For some reason my optical drive and my 300GB hard drive didn't show up once I switched my SATA connections to RAID. I ended up hooking up an IDE drive to the motherboard as well as a floppy but that install ultimately failed (I think mostly due to the IDE optical drive). Next I ordered some SATA -> eSATA cables to snake my SSDs out to the back and run off the jMicron controller. Well this install went much much smoother but now that I have everything up and running with the operating installed I thought I would notice quite a bit of speed on booting and or loading but if anything I've lost the speed I had with just a single SSD being used.

Any ideas?

System Specs:

Abit IP35 Pro
Intel SSD 80 G2

Thanks,

Clint
 
yes, don't use the jmicron controller. you should be using the first two sata ports on the intel ICH9r controller. set them to RAID in the bios. do a clean install of windows 7.

i ran my ocz agility on the same motherboard without issues. the bios support on the ip35 is terrible ever since abit went out. the latest few bios have a lot of problems, i had to back flash to an earlier version.

note: the intel x25 g2 does not have any type of self garbage collection. they will degrade over time the more you use them. not recommend for use in raid.
 
the intel x25 g2 does not have any type of self garbage collection
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Please stop the false info.

ALL SSDs have some kind of Garbage Collection.....every single one.

OP, I've run Intel 80GB G1s & G2 in RAID0 and you'll be just fine!
 
Thanks, do you think I'll see that much of an improvement over just running them without RAID?
 
When I had my 2 x 80GB Intels in a RAID 0 config, my reads went up to 500MB+/s and my writes went up to 160MB/s.

While that looked cool on paper, the 'real world' experience wasn't THAT much more. It was noticable but not earth shattering compared to one drive.....
 
Klynt said:
Thanks, do you think I'll see that much of an improvement over just running them without RAID?
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Not that much.

They were faster than the single Crucial 256GB C300 I'm using now and much faster than the Vertex 2s in RAID0 but the jump from 1 to 2 wasn't very significant.
 
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