Intel 320 and X-25 G2 together in Raid 0?

[dandelioneater]

As the title suggests, I am thinking of attempting to configure these mismatched drives in Raid 0 on the Z77 chipset. I know they are not the same drive, but I was curious to see if they would work together. The array would be used as a steam directory with the application and games on it so I won't be worried if I lose it.

The speed of the X-25 is 250 read, 70 write & the 320 is 250 read, 90 write. Both drives are sata II.

I guess I'd have to switch the sata controller to RAID in BIOS. I can't recall if that would affect my OS on vertex 3 (AHCI) requiring a reinstall of windows?

Thoughts? Concerns?

[lowfat]

Switching from RAID to ACHI does matter. But if you are not booting from these drives just do a software RAID from within Disk Management. It will honestly perform better anyways.

[dandelioneater]

Originally Posted by lowfat

Switching from RAID to ACHI does matter. But if you are not booting from these drives just do a software RAID from within Disk Management. It will honestly perform better anyways.

thanks. I'll give that a try.

[dandelioneater]

well the raid array is up and there doesn't seem to be any issues thus far. Ran crystal disk mark and speeds were about double, which is what I expected. So far so good.

[YoungMan]

Don't forget to use Intel's SSD toolbox + RST for TRIM support. Or your array is gonna suck balls down the road.

[lowfat]

Since his is just a software RAID his TRIM works perfectly fine.

[YoungMan]

Oh right, my bad. Not using SSDs as your boot drive is a rare sight for me.

[dandelioneater]

Originally Posted by lowfat

Since his is just a software RAID his TRIM works perfectly fine.

Originally Posted by YoungMan

Oh right, my bad. Not using SSDs as your boot drive is a rare sight for me.

I actually just ran a test to verify that TRIM was working as it should and it is. I installed the latest 11.x RST drivers and ran this test.