Should work. Few things to keep in mind: 1. Performance over USB 2.0 is going to be abysmal. You're probably looking at a maximum of around 30-35MB/s, when a RAID0 of two Vertexes is capable of sequential performance of around 400MB/s reads and 200MB/s writes. I would encourage you to look at an add-on card--even something with a Silicon Image 3132 chip for $25 will provide vastly superior performance. 2. I wouldn't put anything on the Vertex drives that was critical. I've had too many fail and/or corrupt data (about 10 or 12 out of 45 so far, various failure modes ranging from some corrupt data that a destructive flash cycle was able to fix to the drive not being detected at all anymore). Supposedly the 1.6 FW has corrected some of these issues, but some drives required a destructive downflash to 1.1 and reflash with 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, then 1.6 for corruption to not occur or quit occurring. They don't want people downflashing from 1.6 anymore though, for whatever reason. 3. Running in RAID, the drives will not be able to work with the Windows 7 TRIM function, but the Vertex drives seem to have fairly decent garbage collection that should help keep the performance from degrading too much.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Winterlight > Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 9:42 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [H] Greg>>SSD Question > > I am running an Intel X25 as my primary OS drive but I happen to have a > couple of OCZ Vertex 30 GB drives. I was planning to RAID 0 them, to run > games and other slow loading apps but am short on SATA ports. What I am > thinking of doing is using my Cavalry External dual drive bays which supports > RAID 0 . Both Vertex drives are flashed to the latest 1.6x firmware. > > http://www.cavalrystorage.com/EN-CAHDD2B-D.htm > > Is this going to work out OK on two SSDs, or is this a bad idea. > > thanks
