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I am building a new gaming machine and torn with what SSD drive to go with. My original plan was to purchase 2, 256gb SSD drives and run them in raid 0 for best overall performance plus the extra storage for OS, programs, etc. I have also looked at a single 512gb SSD drive but not sure on those. In your opinion what is the best drive to go with that is the newest because I have seen some drives that have SataIII and some that have Sata6 is that right? Anyways I want something that will be new and great and will be awesome overall with performance and for gaming. Any help or feedback I would appreciate.

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At one time, I had a Intel 80gb X25-M SSD. It worked well, but I needed more space, so I bought a second.
I really wanted a 160gb single image for the "C" drive, so I combined the two in raid-0.
It worked well, but I could not detect any improvement in my user experience.
Later, I used the 80gb drives in other PC's and replaced them with a single X25-M 160gb drive, and performance was equal, if not better.
Do not be much swayed by vendor synthetic SSD benchmarks.
They are done with apps that push the SSD to it's maximum using queue lengths of 30 or so.
Most desktop users will do one or two things at a time, so they will see queue lengths of one or two.
What really counts is the response times, particularly for small random I/O. That...
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At one time, I had a Intel 80gb X25-M SSD. It worked well, but I needed more space, so I bought a second.
I really wanted a 160gb single image for the "C" drive, so I combined the two in raid-0.
It worked well, but I could not detect any improvement in my user experience.
Later, I used the 80gb drives in other PC's and replaced them with a single X25-M 160gb drive, and performance was equal, if not better.
Do not be much swayed by vendor synthetic SSD benchmarks.
They are done with apps that push the SSD to it's maximum using queue lengths of 30 or so.
Most desktop users will do one or two things at a time, so they will see queue lengths of one or two.
What really counts is the response times, particularly for small random I/O. That is what the os does mostly.
For that, the response times of current SSD's are remarkably similar. And quick. They will be 50X faster than a hard drive.
In sequential operations, they will be 2x faster than a hard drive, perhaps 3x if you have a sata3 interface.
Larger SSD's are preferable. They have more nand chips that can be accessed in parallel. Sort of an internal raid-0 if you will.
Also, a SSD will slow down as it approaches full. That is because it will have a harder time finding free nand blocks to do an update without a read/write operation.
You will be better off to buy a single 480gb ssd.
My first choices would be Intel or Samsung for reliability.
 
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I understand your viewpoints and they do make a good argument here and there. This will be my first time having an SSD drive and I have heard good things on them compared to a standard hard drive. My previous drives were Velicoraptor's 300gb and I had 2 of them in Raid 0 and it worked well. Do you think there is an advantage in performance have 2-256gb drives giving me 512gb overall or would it be of a better benefit to have 1-512gb drive?
 
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2 x 256, or 1 x 512 will work well. The performance change going from an HDD is impressive, to say the least.
I have 2 x 128, but not RAID. OS and some applications on one, and MS Office + docs + stuff on the other. The 2 & 3 TB spinning disks get all the rest of the stuff.
 
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There will be no apparent difference in performance with raid-0. Your synthetic benchmarks will be impressive, but you will notice no difference in performance.
I would prefer to see a single 500gb ssd. It is easier to manage capacity and file placement with one drive vs.2
 
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