Friday, September 3, 2010

RAID 0 Good, SSD is great, but what about RAID 0 with SSD?



I had been putting off SSD for a while now, based on the high price, and the fact that most technologies need a bit of time to mature before they are worthwhile. Well, I finally broke down about two weeks ago and got my first SSD. I chose the OCZ Agility 2 based on performance / price combination. This model seems to be the best bang for the buck. Well, after adding it to my Alienware Aurora, which was already RAID 0 on WD 7200 RPM drives, I copied Everquest 2 to the new drive and launched it. Let me preface this by saying I had read many impressive reviews and my expectations were very high, however the SSD did not disapoint. My load times between zones were just great! When playing from a single 7200rpm drive on a different system a few nights later I realized what I must do next, and that was build a new box with 2 Agilty2 SSD's in RAID 0 .


Well the box has been built, I could try to describe it, but let my benchmarks speak for themselves. This is on an Asus P6T with onboard IHCR10 raid controller (nothing fancy).

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