On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:00 AM, Jake Anderson wrote: > don't RAID your SSD's, TRIM commands won't go through the raid > controller so it'll start to suck loads for writes pretty quickly > Yup, I'm aware of that, but: 1. Intel's motherboard RAID driver (alpha version at the moment) does support TRIM over RAID 0. I'll just update when it becomes stable. 2. The background garbage collection in modern SSDs (especially the Vertex 4) is supposedly really good and will do its thing when you just leave your computer idle for a bit. Since I leave it on 24/7, it gets all the time it needs when I'm sleeping. I'm not worried about it at all. The benchmarks show that in RAID 0 mode, the read and write speeds are almost 1GB (GigaBYTE) per second, almost twice the speed of a single SSD without RAID 0. Even if it does somehow start losing its write performance, it would take about half an hour for me to do a backup, full erase, and full restore, so I don't really have anything to lose. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .