Im seeing people using SSDs for RAID-0 and getting excellent improvements in read/write rates.
But now there is a good opportunity to acquire another SSD Force Corsair F60 identical to mine. I'm thinking of buying another and bind the two to RAID-0.
Is it worth it? I'm getting about 285MB/s of reading rate, the system boots within seconds, applications explode on the screen without choking.
Will I gain even more performance or should I just increase my system and applications space from 60 to 120GB? (which would be great, I could have several games installed in addition to programs)
I also read that this SSD is ideal for leaving AHCI enabled on the mainboard, so I left it. But if put it into RAID, will I lose this feature? It has the options "IDE", "AHCI", "RAID / XHD". Or does that even have anything to do with it?
Best Answer
RAID 0 should get you faster reads and writes, but you do you really need that? Note that if you lose one drive of a RAID 0 pair, you just lost the volume, where with with two drives operating independently, you've still got the data on the good drive.
Also, note that without special driver support, you'll be giving up TRIM support on the array.
I think RAID implies AHCI, on Intel boards at least.