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Post Date: 2011-05-27
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    Posted: 27 May 2011 at 4:47am
I'm going to go the intel 320 SSD for OS/games and a second HDD set for data.  I plan to have the single SSD, then 2x500GB HDDs in RAID1 for data and backup (no RAID on the SSD). I've always had RAID1.
Since I don't know how this is routed or controlled exactly, will RAIDing this second HDD set interfere with the SSD's TRIM function? I hope not.
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The hdd raid has nothing to do with ssd setup.

Dragoon has intels in raid himself and says performance drop from not having trim is very little.

Edited by DST4ME - 27 May 2011 at 4:55am

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Posts: 40 		  Quote bishamon Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 27 May 2011 at 5:42am
Good news then.
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Actually, you will need to install the latest Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver (top one) once you get up and running. You just start the .exe, install, and restart, very simple.

Normally if you have any kind of RAID array at all, you forfeit the ability to have TRIM passed on to any drive, even if they aren't in an array. The newest versions versions of the Intel RST drivers however allow you to still have TRIM passed on to any single drive that is not part of an array. That lets you have your RAID1 array along side your SSD and it still get TRIM.

Plus there are great performance advantages from the RST drivers, so they're worth having anyway for anyone with a RAID array.
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Posts: 40 		  Quote bishamon Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 27 May 2011 at 7:30am
Cool, looks good. I guess SSD technology is still moving along.
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Isn't the Rapid Storage Technology driver already installed for his mobo?

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Posts: 2247 		  Quote Dragoonseal Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 27 May 2011 at 8:54am
Originally posted by DST4ME

Isn't the Rapid Storage Technology driver already installed for his mobo?

No, not unless Digital Storm has started installing it themselves. They come standard with just the generic Intel SATA controller drivers. Which don't get me wrong, are the next best thing and perform fine, but they don't allow the TRIM pass through to single non-member SSDs if there's any RAID arrays active. The optional RST driver is the only one that does at this time.

As you said Intel SSDs would perform fine even without the TRIM, but since it's such an incredibly simple 30 second install and restart there's really not any reason not to.
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Posts: 36758 		  Quote DST4ME Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 27 May 2011 at 6:16pm
I thought that driver was part of mobo drivers

Ya installing a driver is easy, so as you said there is not reason not to install that.

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