Best SSDs for RAID 0 as ESXi datastore

[trueimage]

I know that TRIM wont work, but I'm looking for what would best fit my needs.

A couple 64GB models in RAID 0 would probably be more than enough space, but I'll entertain any size.

 

[hardwaretechy]

I hope this is for a test system.

 

[trueimage]

Uh, yeah.

I just want it to be fast.

I'll do backups to an external esata or usb drive.

 

[trueimage]

What about the Other World Computing SSD?

50GB Mercury Extreme Pro RE SSD 2.5" Serial-ATA 9.5mm Solid State Drive. High Performance internal MLC Flash storage with 28% Over Provisioned Redundancy. 5 Year OWC Warranty. (OWCSSDMXRE050)

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/SSDMXRE050/

$209.99 each, seem to have good reviews and performance. Using the SandForce SF-1200 controller with 28% "extra" space so you could fill the drive to 50GB capacity and still have 14GB left for moving stuff around to avoid performance or wear issues.

 

[RetiredChief]

You are going to use sata6 interface. Sata 6 should boost sequencial read/writes. As for the small random read/writes raid0 does very little to improve.

 

[trueimage]

Well, this will be running server server VMs such as oracle / SQL server, a content management system, multiple webservers. I thought throughput and iops were the most important.

So you think one 100GB SSD is worth it over a raid 0 config?

 

[RetiredChief]

Might want to look at the new version setup to work on SATA 6 and based on the SF controller. Sata 6 SSDs are just starting to appear.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3812/the-ssd-diaries-crucials-realssd-c300