Kingston SSDNow V Series Gen II 64 GB Raid 0

[$immond$]

I have ordered one of these already, I was wondering if I should order a second and place it RAID 0. My only concern is that it will degrade and slow down because TRIM will be disabled in RAID 0.

Will I notice much of a slow down once I have installed everything on the SSD with TRIM disabled? Is there anything else I can use to keep the SSD fast if I set it up in RAID?

 

[erocker]

Based on performance, I would sell that SSD and get something with a Sandforce controller on it. It will be as fast as two of those drives in RAID 0 and you'll have Trim.

 

[$immond$]

Based on performance, I would sell that SSD and get something with a Sandforce controller on it. It will be as fast as two of those drives in RAID 0 and you'll have Trim.

yea but for $100 you cant complain, is there any utilities out there for SSD's in RAID to keep them speedy?

 

[erocker]

Well, what I'm saying is after you would sell your current SSD and buy the Sandforce, money-wise it would even out.

This is a good utility for tweaking: http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?49779-SSD-Tweak-Utility

Diskeeper has a defragmenter for SSD's that should work fine with RAID. There are no free defragmenters for this that I know of.

 

[Octopuss]

Yeah, so it cost $100. Well... Ever heard the magic phrase "not rich enough to buy cheap stuff"?

 

[$immond$]

Yeah, so it cost $100. Well... Ever heard the magic phrase "not rich enough to buy cheap stuff"?

$100CAD X2 per 64GB is pretty cheap. Your point?

I understand its not going to perform the same level of more expensive SSD drives, but it is still a shitload faster than any mechanical hard drives in RAID 0. Since TRIM is not supported in raid yet I just want know of any apps that can keep them running relatively fast so I don't experience my system running to crawl once the disk space is nearly used up.

I am not really interested in spending huge $$$ in SSD's yet specially with the lack of SATA 3 choices and limitations by Sata/RAID controllers.

 

[trickson]

$100CAD X2 per 64GB is pretty cheap. Your point?

I understand its not going to perform the same level of more expensive SSD drives, but it is still a shitload faster than any mechanical hard drives in RAID 0. Since TRIM is not supported in raid yet I just want know of any apps that can keep them running relatively fast so I don't experience my system running to craw once the disk space is nearly used up.

I am not really interested in spending huge $$$ in SSD's yet specially with the lack of SATA 3 choices and limitations by Sata/RAID controllers.

Well, what I'm saying is after you would sell your current SSD and buy the Sandforce, money-wise it would even out.

This is a good utility for tweaking: http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?49779-SSD-Tweak-Utility

Diskeeper has a defragmenter for SSD's that should work fine with RAID. There are no free defragmenters for this that I know of.

Thank you for that little tool worked really nice .

I am not sure but I would venture a guess that with out TRIM you will be seeing a slow down of some sort . But I am not an expert in the SSD's I just recently bought one and have it running quite well and it is very fast .

 

[$immond$]

Thanks for the link btw erocker.

Does anyone know if there will be TRIM support for RAID arrays for Server 2008?

 

[ysith]

According to this review which is for the 128gb version of this ssd, using the same controller, these ssd's don't degrade that much in performance even without TRIM.

 

[WarEagleAU]

There should be in the near future an update to drivers and firmware that will support TRIM in raid modes. WHen that is, I am not sure, but I personally am hoping end of this year, Q1` of next.

 

[$immond$]

I sold them and bought a 120 Gb Pheonix Sandforce drive.

 

[Nickzy]

I sold them and bought a 120 Gb Pheonix Sandforce drive.

That's a pretty good choice aswell, how is the transffer rates compared to the kingston drive?

 

[$immond$]

I was hitting upwards of 480Mbps for read and 165-170 for writes with the 2 Kingston Drives in Raid 0, not bad for $200. I haven't installed my Sandforce yet, its still sitting on my desk.

My AMD system failed running 2 SSD's in RAID 0, there seems to be issues with 850SB on the 890 chipsets, hence why I sold them and bought a single Sandforce drive. I wont to get another one, so I hope AMD is able to fix the problem, or I am switching to Intel.

 

[$immond$]

I sold these drives to the same friend who bought my i7 Rig, I have to say they are faster than my single Sandforce drive and also score a higher windows 7 rating.

7.3 where is I am only scoring 7.1, not to mention were $100 cheaper.