Raid0 hard drives - forget it!

[Sam DeathWalker]

Ok I didnt previously realize that access time goes up (someone did mention something about it but I kinda brushed it off) a lot with hard drives in raid0:

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/raid-matrix-charts/Random-Access-Time,227.html

2 Drives: 10ms
3 Drives: 14ms
4 Drives: 20ms

LoL

This might not apply to SSD drives but it sure does to raptors and what not. Raid0 - forget it!

[Owltoid]

Most members who frequent the harware section know how little I know about computers. However, I don't think Raid 0 would be a problem with SSD. The seeks times are so quick that multiplying them by a factor of 2 would not outweigh the increase in throughput that you get with Raid 0. I guess it depends where the bottleneck is.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Ya I doubt it would effect SSD either. The X-25 has internal Raid0 ...

This link from ciscokid454 really makes it hard to recomend SSD though as for some reason they become heavly fragmented once fulled up with even one write:

Basically after using the SSD for awhile your transfer rate goes from 250m/s down to 50m/s lol ...

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=669&type=expert&pid=1