Corsair 240GB Force GT RAID0 Review
Crystal Disk Mark
Published: 4th January 2012 | Source: Corsair | Price: |
Crystal Disk Mark
Crystal Disk Mark places a variety of stresses upon the drive. The 512K and Sequential tests generally follow the speeds we see in other tests but the two 4K sizes always give the lowest results because of the smaller block size.
Read
Because of the uncompressable data used a Sandforce drive doesn't gain as many benefits as it might in other benchmarks, yet the Force GT still bludgeons it. In fact it's almost a shock that the pure 4K test only has the RAID 0 set up in second place, because everywhere else it's doubling a single drive. Which we'd expect, but we're so used to the diminishing returns of multi-GPU that it's good to see some technologies still give us 100% improvements.
Write
Writing is something that these drives absolutely thrive on. So often manufacturers sacrifice everything on the altar of a big read speed for the advertising, yet the Corsair Force GT is actually more impressive in Write tests than it is in the Read ones. The 4K QD32 score is probably the most jaw-dropping result we've seen from a drive in any test, ever.
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That's some pretty sweet performance there
Correct me if im wrong, but last i checked you can't have both TRIM support and RAID enabled, its one or the other.
Though i know Intel is working on something to make it happen, but im yet to hear of it being available.
Though i know Intel is working on something to make it happen, but im yet to hear of it being available.
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Originally Posted by khorngor
Correct me if im wrong, but last i checked you can't have both TRIM support and RAID enabled, its one or the other. Though i know Intel is working on something to make it happen, but im yet to hear of it being available. |
This is exciting... I use a 1TB drive for the data on my PC, it's looking like a couple of years down the line with a small premium I'll be able to use SSD for boot *and* data, then relegate the mechanicals to backup duties.
Is this using the Intel RAID setup? Just intrigued as RAID-5 was appalling on my PC at work, whereas a straight stripe was miles better since there's no parity, but I always suspected that the driver-based RAID had some overheads even in RAID-0. It's an older board though (something MSI with an i7-850 on it, not sure what, it's an off-the-shelf HP.)
Is this using the Intel RAID setup? Just intrigued as RAID-5 was appalling on my PC at work, whereas a straight stripe was miles better since there's no parity, but I always suspected that the driver-based RAID had some overheads even in RAID-0. It's an older board though (something MSI with an i7-850 on it, not sure what, it's an off-the-shelf HP.)
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Originally Posted by Alicarve
Thats what i thought might have changed now though |
http://www.techpowerup.com/155368/Intel-Making-TRIM-on-RAID-Possible-.html
The article i read about Intel working on it, but im yet to hear anything more about it.
Doesn't this have both TRIM and Garbage Collection support? Maybe the Garbage collection works with RAID-0 even if TRIM doesn't
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Originally Posted by Ya93sin
Doesn't this have both TRIM and Garbage Collection support? Maybe the Garbage collection works with RAID-0 even if TRIM doesn't |
From what I understand Trim does not work with Raid 0. However GC does. I've been running an SSD Raid 0 setup for over a year and have yet to notice any perceivable drop in performance.
Brian, the only thing you missed out was to include your postal address.
Brian, the only thing you missed out was to include your postal address.
VB was refering to trim for the drives on their own boys. In RAID TRIM isnt available (yet) and you need to rely on Garbage Collection to keep things swift
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Originally Posted by sheroo
From what I understand Trim does not work with Raid 0. However GC does. I've been running an SSD Raid 0 setup for over a year and have yet to notice any perceivable drop in performance. Brian, the only thing you missed out was to include your postal address. |
Run it over and over for about two days.
Post the results.
now the sizes are getting better and the performance is insane all we need are the prices to drop 
so jelly vb
so jelly vb
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Originally Posted by Z0mB13
Put ATTO on your PC. Run it over and over for about two days. Post the results. |
awesome just a shame that SSDs cost so much, ill be getting a ocz synapse and a wd black 1tb Great review VB and epic numbers wish I had the $$ to do something like this but my 2 C300's are doing fine
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now the sizes are getting better and the performance is insane all we need are the prices to drop so jelly vb |
I reckon very soon we could see this, past year they have dropped in price immensely
All one can say really is WOW!
Wow, those are amazing results from these drives. I don't think it will be a big disadvantage without the TRIM function from within Windows 7. These drives have pretty good house cleaning abilities that run in the background.
Time to start collecting pennies!
Oh man those things are smoking fast...
And the results can be faster. It doesn't mention which version of Intel Rapid Storage Technology used but the latest 11.0.01032 WHQL drivers make these drives perform even better.
Results from my 2x120Gb Corsair Force GT Drives running in Raid 0 using the 11.0.01032 WHQL Intel RST drivers.
Review once again missing the price from the top as was the keyboard one . yet still have a rating for value? also dare i ask how can you compare raid0 drives to non raided drives? like comparing a single card setup to a sli / crossfire ofcourse its going to be faster....
and saying that the 2 drives raid 0 speed halfed equates to 420mb/s doesnt really work like that tho does it?
and saying that the 2 drives raid 0 speed halfed equates to 420mb/s doesnt really work like that tho does it?
huh?
Great review it has sold me on what ssd raid I am going with!
Is there anyways we might be able to get a review of this drive but solo. To see who is the best single drive?
Is there anyways we might be able to get a review of this drive but solo. To see who is the best single drive?
Top review. These are hella fast
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