Corsair introduces the Neutron Series SSD

[HEXUS]

Fourth-generation drive eschews SandForce in favour of Link_A_Media Devices.

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[Brewster0101]

I don't understand how SATA 3 has limited bandwidth of <600mb/sec when if you raid 0 a Force GT you can achieve read and write over 1GB/sec. Surely the best option is to make drives that are designed with RAID 0 in mind and maybe have two drives stuck together but feed into two SATA 3 ports.

[kingpotnoodle]

I don't understand how SATA 3 has limited bandwidth of <600mb/sec when if you raid 0 a Force GT you can achieve read and write over 1GB/sec. Surely the best option is to make drives that are designed with RAID 0 in mind and maybe have two drives stuck together but feed into two SATA 3 ports.

Because when you do RAID it is operating over 2 channels, one to each drive, the limit then becomes how much data the RAID chip and the CPU it uses (host or dedicated on high end RAID cards) can munch through.

[Valinor]

I don't understand how SATA 3 has limited bandwidth of <600mb/sec when if you raid 0 a Force GT you can achieve read and write over 1GB/sec. Surely the best option is to make drives that are designed with RAID 0 in mind and maybe have two drives stuck together but feed into two SATA 3 ports.

The main problem I can think of with that is that RAID controllers (at the moment) can't pass the TRIM command to the SSD, so you don't get to use TRIM. I know that there are some controllers (thinking that the one on the latest (I think) Revo drive allowed a specific TRIM command through) which can do it, but on the example I mentioned it required a different command to normal which Windows 7 (or earlier) couldn't give.

[KeyboardDemon]

Does this mean that the drives will allow Trim support when two are used in raid? Or is that down to the mobo/chipset?