SSD's in Raid0

[Ualaa]

Intel X25-V in RAID-0: Faster than X25-M G2 for $250? - AnandTech :: Your Source for Hardware Analysis and News

[burningforce]

interesting results

though like the author of the article, the lack of trim is troubling.

[Ualaa]

I'm quite tempted to go with 2x Intel X25-M (160GB each) in Raid0.

The article suggests a decent controller is essential, if you lose the Trim command. It also mentions unused drive space, via a partition, as something which drastically reduces the decay of the drive. And then says, long sequential writes can speed the drive up some.

If there was too much degradation of speed, possibly copy the wow folder to the storage drive (would back up the WTF anyway), and then format, un-raid them and run Trim on each, re-raid them and reinstall. I always hate installing operating systems, but love how smoothly a system runs after doing so. I'm not sure how to Raid/Un-Raid the drives yet, but that cannot be too hard to figure out.

[burningforce]

is intel any closer getting trim command to work in raid? or is it a hardware limitation for the controller and motherboard(southbridge?)?

I agree with how smoothly everything is when you reinstall everything
It is good that windows 7 does not take that long to install on a SSD

[Ualaa]

Have not heard anything about Trim working in a Raid setup, so will assume it's not an option.

According to the article, Intel will release Generation III SSD's in the fourth quarter of 2010. I don't have any information on them, aside from that.