Waco Posted February 5, 2011 Posted February 5, 2011 I caved in. I got another Indilinx SSD and put it in RAID with my first one. I got tired of not having my Steam folder (which is HUGE) on my SSD. With a 64k stripe I'm getting pretty good performance (I initially used a 16k stripe per Intel's recommendation but it seemed slow in all my benchmarking). Roughly double what a single Indilinx drive can do...hell, I won't complain! The write speeds are slightly lower than I expected (but still damn fast). I assume this is mostly because I'm using the onboard Intel controller in my mobo. ~500 MB/s reads and ~300 MB/s writes sustained. ~100 MB/s 4K read, ~60 MB/s 4K write. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boinker Posted February 5, 2011 Posted February 5, 2011 I just got my OCZ Revo drive. giggity. Here are the Shots from HD tune with it as an OS drive. If it was stand alone It would be slightly faster but its an awesome set-up. Boot time has basically been cut in half. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted February 5, 2011 Posted February 5, 2011 Nice! My write speeds don't quite get there but my reads are frickin' sweet! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Slayer Posted February 16, 2011 Posted February 16, 2011 Jealous! What did you get with the drives while just using one? Are you considering getting a RAID card to get some more performance out of them? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted February 16, 2011 Posted February 16, 2011 It performs literally twice as fast with 2 versus one except for writes (which are ~50% faster or so). The board that they were hooked up to died yesterday though - I'm hoping the drives survived the fire / sparks / etc. They'll be hooked up to an ICH10R on a P45 board hopefully this Friday if everything is still intact. Haven't really considered a RAID card - the ones that are actually good are extremely expensive and the Intel controller is actually pretty good. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
El_Capitan Posted February 16, 2011 Posted February 16, 2011 The Intel controller is pretty good, but I'm selling my controller card for $315 (with BBU it's around $630) in case you're curious. I haven't tried it out with any SSD's, though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardnrg Posted February 17, 2011 Posted February 17, 2011 So TRIM works for you with Indilinx SSD RAID + Intel ICHx? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted February 17, 2011 Posted February 17, 2011 (edited) So TRIM works for you with Indilinx SSD RAID + Intel ICHx? It'll work on single drives - not on any drives in RAID. AFAIK Intel was working on making it work for RAID arrays at some point but there's no real ETA on when they'll get it done. I'm relying on the internal garbage collection to handle block cleaning. Edited February 17, 2011 by Waco Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
potatochobit Posted February 17, 2011 Posted February 17, 2011 revodrives are total awesomeness. how did your motherboard catch on fire? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted February 17, 2011 Posted February 17, 2011 (edited) revodrives are total awesomeness. how did your motherboard catch on fire? I made a thread about it: http://forums.overclockersclub.com/index.php?showtopic=182357&pid=1891464&st=0entry1891464 Power circuitry just took a dump out of nowhere. Edited February 17, 2011 by Waco Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted February 17, 2011 Posted February 17, 2011 Whew, finally got around to making sure my SSDs were intact...and they work perfectly! I took the opportunity the downtime presented and flashed them to new firmware. The Corsair X128 had firmware revision 1.0, it now has the G.Skill Falcon 2030 firmware. Obviously the real Falcon has that firmware now too. Here's the Corsair drive with the G.Skill firmware on it: Here's the G.Skill drive with the same firmware: Looks pretty close to me. The numbers are a bit low because I'm running on an older HTPC build that I was fixing for my brother. Here's my temporary machine: Looks like a beast huh? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted February 19, 2011 Posted February 19, 2011 (edited) Got the drives up and running in RAID 0 on the new mobo - unfortunately Windows restore re-imaged the wrong drives...but that leaves me a little time to benchmark! Edited February 19, 2011 by Waco Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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