It's likely that his partition offsets are not optimized, in which case substantial performance can be lost. It will certainly work, but you won't get the most performance out of the drives. While I don't mean to complicate matters further, I should also point out that being divisible by 4096 is really just a quick and dirty way to see if you're using the old outdated 63-sector offset or not. Vista and W7 use a 1MB (1,048,576 bytes) offset. A block on an SSD isn't necessarily 4KB--but 1MB is a multiple of whatever the block size actually is. Same for stripe size on striped RAID arrays--1MB should be a multiple of any stripe size option, so the default 1MB works very well.
I can't believe anyone is still running Win2k. It was an awful operating system at release, let alone a decade later. I skipped directly from NT4 to XP because I never found 2K to be performant or reliable. The 1.4x Vertex firmware had two versions--1.40 that supported TRIM under W7, and 1.41 that included what OCZ called "garbage collection". It's basically an attempt by the controller's firmware to identify blocks that can be erased without operating system interaction, and then perform cleanup during periods of inactivity. It's imperfect, but better than nothing at all. At present, no RAID drivers are able to pass TRIM to RAID arrays, so garbage collection is the best you can hope for. Current drives, controllers, and firmware actually do a pretty good job at used block cleanup even without TRIM, but TRIM is still the ideal. The 1.50 firmware includes both TRIM and garbage collection in the same firmware. Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Winterlight > Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 9:27 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] OS on RAID 0 ?? > > > Something of interest Greg... a friend wrote me that he is running > SSDs on his system, having replaced his 15K Cheetahs. He is running > Win 2k SP4 OS and he used an old Partition Magic 8 and Drive Image 7 > to create and backup the SSD. Isn't this exactly what you said not to > do? > > And how does the 1.5 firmware handle the old data without TRIM... is > this problamatic or does the firmware handle this? > w > > At 06:02 PM 4/4/2010, you wrote: > >The OCZ Vertex flashing procedure involves burning the updater ISO to > a disc > >and booting to it. You'll need to have your SATA ports in IDE or ATA > mode, > >not RAID or AHCI, for the flash to work. It should only take a second > or two > >to actually perform the update. > > > >Greg > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Winterlight > > > Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 7:53 PM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: [H] OS on RAID 0 ?? > > > > > > I should get the 2nd drive in a couple of days. BTW should I wait > > > until I have set up the RAID 0 before flashing to 1.5...or should I > > > just do the drives now in windows?Thanks for all the help Greg, > > > hopefully this will happen as planned! > > > w > > >
