Tomorrow when I get my 2nd Crucial C300 128GB SSD, I will be putting them in raid-0. I will use Partition Magic to secure erase the current SSD (Does anyone have any xp with secure erasing using Partition Magic?)
Since TRIm is not an option for me, Crucial's Garbage Collection option is the best I have. My question is what would be the best/proper method for creating RAID-0? From what I hear Crucial needs 20% of free space for Garbage Collection/TRIM to work properly/efficiently. Someone told me for best performance is to leave as much as 80GB unpartitioned in the raid so 128+128=256-80 leaving me with only 176GB left from my current 128GB (doesn't feel like a big upgrade) considering that space was the main reason I got the 2nd SSD.
I know that with no TRIM, raid will degrade after a few month but apparently with this solution it might not be as quick, thoughts? Also, when I will be secure erasing my current ssd, should I do the same thing to my new ssd?
Thanks
Since TRIm is not an option for me, Crucial's Garbage Collection option is the best I have. My question is what would be the best/proper method for creating RAID-0? From what I hear Crucial needs 20% of free space for Garbage Collection/TRIM to work properly/efficiently. Someone told me for best performance is to leave as much as 80GB unpartitioned in the raid so 128+128=256-80 leaving me with only 176GB left from my current 128GB (doesn't feel like a big upgrade) considering that space was the main reason I got the 2nd SSD.
I know that with no TRIM, raid will degrade after a few month but apparently with this solution it might not be as quick, thoughts? Also, when I will be secure erasing my current ssd, should I do the same thing to my new ssd?
Thanks