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#400317 4-Nov-2010 19:22

The Adata uses a sandforce 1200 controller which is considered one of the best. And like Ragnor said, they actually put more memory in the drive but just dont address it so that the drive can use it to replace areas of failure. Warranty is 3 years which is pretty good.

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#400364 4-Nov-2010 21:26

I have actually just read at storage review that when you RAID regular SSD drives that they lose the TRIM?

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#400370 4-Nov-2010 21:35

networkn: I have actually just read at storage review that when you RAID regular SSD drives that they lose the TRIM?

Correct, which is why you need to then rebuild every so often to maintain the speed of the SSD.

Hopefully RAID chip makers will allow TRIM passthrough soon!

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#400376 4-Nov-2010 21:38

So then why would I not get the OCZ Revo Drive then since the alternative is 2 x SSD's in a RAID 0 and then I'd lose the TRIM anyway?

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#400377 4-Nov-2010 21:38

Anyone know who is the disty for OCZ?

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#400378 4-Nov-2010 21:41

networkn: So then why would I not get the OCZ Revo Drive then since the alternative is 2 x SSD's in a RAID 0 and then I'd lose the TRIM anyway?

As i said before:

"If cost and hassle are not an issue then for raw speed the Revo is the way to go."

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#400390 4-Nov-2010 22:14

Hmm well I have been having a look at my disk configurations trying to work out what I need, and 51 of 125GB used space is Steam :)
17GB is Windows, including about 9GB in the Winsxs folder which I can't delete. A stagerring 24GB is Hyperfil.sys and pagefile.sys :)

I would really like 160GB storage in RAID0, preferably in PCI-E

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#401015 5-Nov-2010 23:38

Further information I found out today.... If I run a RAID 0 configuration on dual SSD's vs PCi-E RAID, I will get a very small boot speed improvement because of some form of RAID init that needs to go on.. Sounded very strange to me, but I was told that?

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#401019 5-Nov-2010 23:57

Hmm I see 240GB Revo Drives on EBAY for $900 Kiwi Incl Postage, that is pretty compelling considering the cheapest I can find it elsewhere is $1440. It would solve all my issues except for TRIM I think, inside my budget. I am just wondering if OCZ have worldwide warranties.

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#401426 7-Nov-2010 18:00

networkn: I have actually just read at storage review that when you RAID regular SSD drives that they lose the TRIM?

FYI

The intel storage driver has supported RAID 0 TRIM (if your motherboard is using an intel chipset) since March.

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#401487 7-Nov-2010 21:56

I have decided on 2 x OCZ Vertex 2 Extended 3.5" 128GB Drives in a RAID 0 attached to my ICHR10 3gbps connectors.

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#401597 8-Nov-2010 11:13

Nice, let us know how it goes and post some benchmarks after it's setup!

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