So ... a dilemma oh expert gaf. Having jumped on that $99 Crucual C300 deal I'm now experiencing some buyers remorse. While on its surface the SSD appears quite good, reading the details on their forums is giving me pause. It seems to have very good performance for 4k reads/writes, and will even take advantage of my SATA III/6GBs (my MoBo has an intel controller, which actually performs OK with the Crucual, unlike Marvell controllers). Unfortunately stability seems to be kind of shite with the current firmware, and Crucial has remained non-existent on their forums to discuss the problems. The FW is nearing 3 months old and not a word.
Needless to say, I'm considering going to what would seem like the next best pick at that price point - the OCZ Vertex 2 60GB. But here's the deal. Given that this is a SandForce-based SSD, RAID becomes a viable option due to the superior GC (
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This brings me to my two main questions. 1) Does anyone have any negative experiences with the OCZ Vertex 2's that should give me pause?
2) Does anyone with SSD RAID experience have impressions of RAID 0 versus 1? Is the performance jump notable enough, or should I just simplify my life by having a mirror? I do plan to have back ups, but obviously re-imaging and the like takes a bit of time. So while I am capable of handling a failure I would rather go for stability if I'm not going to see much of a performance improvement anyway. If the performance increase is notable though, I'd certainly opt for striping.
