SSD Question
 

Currently I am running 4 seagate 250GB in a raid 0 128k stripe on the on board controller of the EVGA classified. When building the array in the bios set up I generally use the four drives and create two volumes and 4 partitions 2 on each volume. Then I install the OS's. I have it set up to tri-boot. Windows XP pro 32, Vista 64 bit, and windows 7 64 bit. I am considering going to 4 SSD's on the on board controller and am curios if I could set up SSD's the same way with a tri-boot system and multiple partitions in a raid 0 array.
I know performance would be better with an add on card however that will come later.

Thank You

Yup you would do it the same way with SSD's

Your total Raid 0 size will be smaller tho do the small size of SSD's.

not sure what kind of research you've done peakes, but take a look at the alignment needed to get these things purring.

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...ad.php?t=48309

ICH10R handles up to 6 SSD's pretty well.

i actually run 2 ssd's on the ICH10 and it runs great, and i have multiboot setup on it.... its the same as any hdd, just much faster

Yup... not a problem at all, and you'll get more speed to boot. :D

Jeff if you are using the Vertex drives no tweaks are neccesary and they will run as you ask.

Thank You for the reply Now I just need to find the money for these drives.

Check Jeffro's yard, I hear he's got a jar buried under the porch. :P

Check out my thread over at NBOC. I setup 4 OCZ Vertex in RAID0 on Vista and I also set up 2 of them in RAID0 on Win7. I used the Classified board for both setups.
Dukes OCZ Vertex review at NBOC

Very nice Duke !

Yes when I first setup my 8x 32gb MTRON PRO SSD Raid 0 I had the same reaction you had with yours :)

I have had this bad boy running for about a year now and it's very hard to go back to HDD's :)

Those drives must fly man. Are you using a controller or on board?

Yes I am using a ARC-1231ML.

Bandwidth is in the range of 950mb/s when going full out. It's a very good Raid but getting beat up these days by the newer drives. They can achive the same bandwidth with about half the drives now.

I read somewhere that SSDs shoud not be defragged, and that windows scheduled defrag should be disabled. By defragging they will get slower and slower. Was this old news for the very first SSDs, or is this relevant to all SSDs?

That's the word I heard. Now whether there is any truth to this I dunno. Guess I need to do some research.