One major disadvantage, you can't use TRIM on the drives and I'm guessing the raid will increase latency a bit.
Eli On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Greg Sevart <ad...@xfury.net> wrote: > Yes. When I was weighing getting one 160GB G2 vs two 80GBs and stripe them, > I opted for the later since the price was nearly the same. I don't really > think it gets me that much better real world performance, but it does help > on sequential writes, which is one area the Intel SSDs are a bit weak. There > is an increased chance of data loss, but I back up my machine nightly, so I > don't worry too much about that either. > > The greatest thing, however, is that in a couple years when it's time to > move on to a newer, faster, bigger SSD, I can upgrade two other systems > instead of just one. That was the biggest reason behind it. > > Greg >
