so how does it feel using it now ?

This is my non optimised Vertex 2 60 GB drive.

so basically is it worth the hassle ?

if you can get it working perfect then the potential speeds are massive, 400Mb/s read 320Mb/s write.
some people get that straight out the box but looking around the enthusiasts forums many people dont, including me

my system is very fast, files transfer around the drive almost instantly, windows boots in about 20secs and applications that are installed on the c: drive load almost instantly too, but people with the exact same setup as me get better benchmarks for some reason.

I would probably just got for a single high performance ssd as a boot drive than messing around trying to get raid working.

I think the controllers are still somewhat in their infancy and Id suspect this is part of the problem when it comes to trying RAID configurations with them. At least prices are finally coming down!

Actual SSD drivers/controllers seem to be pretty good but Motherboard support is very iffy.Had a few people moan @ me about Gigabytes 6gb sata not being compatible with Crucials latest SSDs

Finally bit the bullet and upgraded to a SSD, got a OCZ 60GB Vertex for my gaming comp which I didn't think is a bad price at just under a £100


Thats on a clean install with just drivers installed.


That is with Windows updated, AV, a few others progs installed and WoW (which is 22gigs), left with about 15gigs unused.

Im quite impressed with the performance, it is a lot quicker than a pair of Raptors in Raid0, but it did take me 3 attempts to get Windows installed on it, it just ground to a halt at the part when it starts writing files to disk on the first 2 attempts, but has worked flawlessly since.

Not going to upgrade my HTPC to one yet, which is more of a workhorse than my gaming comp, 60gigs would be too small for me and I would get pissed off with having to shift stuff when it was getting full after a few months lol when the 100-120gig drives drop to just over a hundred I will  

Can't believe it has been 2 years since I got the ssd's

Quick update on how they are running 2 years and 3 months on,




not good lol

looks like a trip to OCZ forums.

How much free space do you have? I'm guessing TRIM hasn't been running properly because its in RAID hence slow writes? I think you need the right Intel drivers for it to work properly but haven't looked into it myself as I'm not using RAID with mine.

Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on January 05, 2013, 14:07:53 PM
How much free space do you have? I'm guessing TRIM hasn't been running properly because its in RAID hence slow writes? I think you need the right Intel drivers for it to work properly but haven't looked into it myself as I'm not using RAID with mine.

I thought it might be a TRIM issue because of the RAID. I'm also running a fresh install so I am thinking the RAID drivers are wrong or old possibly because the benchmark results are very different each time I run it.

I just updated the FW on the SDDs and ran atto twice straight after each other.




completely random

edit: over 40gb of 60 free

pagefile switched off.

Is raid still not advisable? I'm getting a new laptop for work and my plan was to run a 250gb ssd and a 500gb (only 250 used) hdd in mirrored raid.

I work on stuff that requires I leave behind a HDD after working on it so my plan was...

Normal job, leave both drives in laptop running in mirrored raid.
Leaving job, remove ssd and work on a degraded raid afterwards I'd put in fresh hdd and ssd, repair the array.

Was hoping that would give me the speed benefits of ssd on jobs I could use it on and make life super easy on jobs I can't.

Think it'd work?

if mirror raid a normal HD and an SSD you'll only get the speed of the normal hard drive :-(

Well that sucks was hoping the raid controller would send the read request out to both and just return the fastest response. Then HDD cache would handle writes so it all magically happened in the background.

a fancy raid controller can... but not a laptop one :-(

Quote from: knighty on January 06, 2013, 12:32:26 PM
a fancy raid controller can... but not a laptop one :-(

Hmm... Well it is a high end machine, so maybe I'll get lucky will give it a go and report back if so, should have it in a week or so. Fingers crossed.