CORSAIR Force GT 240gb SSD drives in RAID 0
by filezz on Oct.19, 2011, under Hardware, News
Sandforce SSD Corsair Force GT in raid 0
Here is a short but sweet review of 2 Sandforce Corsair Force
GT 240Gb SSD hard drives in a RAID 0 configuration.
I moved from a single 256gb SSD drive to a raid 0 for a few
reasons.
256gb is still a bit on the small side and I wanted more
space. The cost going from two 240gb
drives to a single 480MB drive or 512gb
drive is about the same in cost. But the performance for two drives in raid 0
vs one drive is two times the performance. This is a lot of money to spend on
Drive space, so I figured if I was going to go big I should also keep performance
in mind This is why I went Raid 0.
This Gives a 2x performance gain for the same money as a
480GB Corsair Force GT.
I also thought of doing 4x120GB drives but My SATA3 6GB/s
controller only would raid 2 drives in 6GB/s.
My old SSD the Crucial C300 at the time was the best performer
coming in at 219MB per sec on the writes and 380MB on the read. At the time
this beat all other SSD’s in a 2.5” format by about 100MB per sec.
The Corsair Force GT 240GB comes in at 515MB/s on the write
and a blazing 555MB/s on the read. It uses the SF-2000 SSD Processor.
In RAID 0 the drives get
1030MB/s writes and 1100MB/s read.
See ATOT benchmark below.
When I say things open in a blink of an eye I really mean blink and
there the app is.
October 19th, 2011 on 10:26 pm
What’s your mobo?
I’ve got the parts just delievered today to do the same, just with 2x120GB though. lol I could not afford the 240′s.
Interesting choice on the Force GT’s any particular reason why you went with them?
October 20th, 2011 on 8:40 am
I am running the Asus Maximus iv Extreme
All the reviews I have read put the Corsair force GT equal to all other drives.
The speed was acually 5mb/s faster on the Corsair drives over the OCZ. Also from past experiance Corsair has much better support then OCZ and who does not like red hard drive.
October 20th, 2011 on 6:40 pm
Did you install the IRST drivers once windows was completed installation and updating or did you decide not to use those drivers at all?
October 20th, 2011 on 7:14 pm
I acually did not have to reinstall.
I used Paragon Migrate to SSD. All went well.
I hated the thought of a wipe so I did some reading and Migrate to SSD kept the SSD raid Aligned so I would not have to reinstall the OS.
I did not Bother with the intel rapid storage tech install.