Two 32Gb SSDs in Raid 0

[imExcitebike]

A friend of mine has an extra Patriot PS-100 32Gb SSD laying around that he said he would sell me for $50. I know that 32gb is not gonna be of any use, but would buying another one and throwing them in a Raid 0 be worth the money?

Right now im using an old 160Gb Toshiba 7200 drive as my system drive.

Am I gonna see an increase in speed going with two SSDs in Raid 0?

 

[sub.mesa]

A 32GB SSD can be very useful - it can contain the Operating System and most if not all installed applications; that's exactly what you need it for. Use HDDs for anything else.

But instead of RAID0-ing two cheap SSDs, buying one good SSD is a superior choice. Especially the Intel SSDs are clearly worth their money if you look at their random IOps performance - that's what makes them so fast not the MB/s scores. The cheaper SSDs don't have Intel's advanced controller, but pack a cheaper JMicron/Samsung/Indilinx one, that performs much worse than Intel in random IOps benchmarks.

So honestly, if two cheap SSDs are even close to the price of one Intel, i would go for the Intel. It would be a product you enjoy for the next 10 years.

 

[C-rizzle]

Indilix controllers aren't bad. They're right behind Intel right now. Jmicron's aren't even that bad ANY more. The first versions were horrible, the latest inside of the Kingston V+'s are ok. Middle of road performance for SSD's, still far faster than HD's.

Though Intel, Sandforce and Micron's are at the top of the list.