RAID 0 with SSDs
Hello folks
I have an OCZ Vertex, first generation, and an OCZ Vertex Turbo, both of them are the 30GB versions, and I raided them in a RAID 0 matrix. The goal is to keep a speedy system for my gf, she is playing those games on facebook that load a huge amount of information in flash, after a few minutes of play the memory size in task manager for flash will indicate at least 400MB. That would not be an issue as per se as our systems have 6GB and 8GB respectively of RAM. Her system is presently using a Mushkin Enhanced 60GB SATA III SSD and the controller is the Marvell 9123 I think, on the Asus U3S6. I would consider giving her my system, which has the 2 SSDs in RAID and 8GB of RAM, but before doing that, to keep the system at it's peak performance is there anything I should do before that? The RAID matrix is done with 64k stripe and the controller is the AMD southbridge SB710. Should I change the stripe, any suggestions? TRIM is out of the question given the RAID config. I am also considering buying a Crucial M4 64GB, from what I see on the web this is the best performing SSD in non TRIM environments. What can you advice me? Below there are 2 screenshots of read and write performance done with HD Tune and Atto 264.
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