So I was thinking about how fast the write speed for a striped set of OCZ Vertex Turbos would be: between 300-435 MB/s. That’s simply awesome.

However, there are some drawbacks to my plan:

1) assuming onboard RAID0 will be sufficient

2) onboard RAID0 won’t have TRIM support

3) extra effort and cost of three drives might not be as worthwhile as one badass drive, even if that one (sata) drive maxes out at 220MB/s.

I have to wonder if, as three SSD drives fill and their random write speeds drop off (because the drive has to do it’s internal monkeying), that a striped set wouldn’t be all that bad…the amount of monkeying presumably would be only 1/3 as bad in a three striped set, no?

The 220MB/s rate is apparently the SATA bus saturation rate, so you don’t see SSD SATAII drives faster than that until you jump to PCIe-X16 drives.

I was forwarded a link to a great Anandtech article on SSDs and why the Intel SSD is still quite stellar. Haven’t finished reading it, can’t say more yet.