Vertex 2 Raid 0 or Corsair Force Raid 0

[mpavao81]

I have finally decided to upgrade my 3 74gb raptors in raid 0 for a SSD raid. I have my choice narrowed down to either Vertex 2 or corsair force series. From what I can tell from specs both drives offer 285MB/s read and 275MB/s write and both list at 50k IOPs. Im either going to do 2 Corsair F90's or 2 Vertex 2 90GB drives. Anyone have any opinions on which setup I should go with. There both pretty much the same price the corsair are $179(CAN) each and the vertex 2 are $175(CAN) each. Thanks for any advice or suggestions you may have.

And my current system specs:
I7 860 @3.6ghz
8GB 1600Mhz ddr ram
OS Drive 3x 74GB raptors RAID 0
Backup drive 320GB Seagate
Sapphire 5870 Toxic
Maximus III Formula motherboard

 

[torepia]

Doesnt these two drives both use the SandForce controller?

Then the discs are pretty like!

 

[mpavao81]

Yes they both use sandforce but Ive heard one uses sandforce 1200 and the other uses 1222 sandforce and im not sure which uses which and what the difference is

 

[tecmo34]

I would go with the OCZ Vertex 2. They are the more reliable drivers and Corsair seems to be having an issue: http://www.corsair.com/blog/corsair-force-startup-hibernation-work-around/

 

[mpavao81]

thanks

 

[mpavao81]

Best answer selected by mpavao81.

 

[groberts101]

The force's may still be using 34nm nand so they would be faster but Tecmo is right about bugs, and from a compatibility standpoint.. V2 has newer firmware fixes.

Be sure you have the newest 1.32 version before using sleeps though. In fact with a PC, I would just stay away from sleep transitions altogether as that will avoid any of the little Sandforce bugs for the few systems that still suffer from it.