Dual SSD Config ideas

**blackgold** · 07-11-12, 08:17 AM

Ok, I've got my 120gb corsair force 3 running as I think it should but think I could do a bit better. My Mobo has an MSATA slot (sata 2) on it and am thinking of buying a 30-60gb MSATA SSD to throw on the board to put all swap files and such on it. I've got 16gb of ram also
Brian

**RhysJD3** · 07-11-12, 10:30 AM

I think that would just cache it which wouldn't benefit you for the main 120 gb SATA. I think dual 120GB in striping would be more effective. Just not sure if garbage collection/trim would work properly.

**Phyrelight** · 07-11-12, 11:09 AM

Raiding SSDs is expensive and though it does give a slight increases in performance the normal user will not see the difference between a single quality SSD and 2 SSD's in raid. If you have 16GB of Ram your swap file should rarely if ever get used.

**SapiensErus** · 07-11-12, 04:20 PM

I was running 2 180Gb Corsair Force III SSD's in RAID0 on SATA III. The difference was not perceptible to me... I parted one out for my lappy. Really the performance of most new SSD's is so good that the bottleneck becomes some other part of the system again.