OCZ Colossus in Raid 0

[Robmoo]

Has anyone here done a Raid 0 with the OCZ Colossus drives? How's the Raid preformance?

I'm curious about what would be the optimum number of SSD drives in a Raid for speed. Once I'm done putting together my SSD's I want to end up with 500GB-1TB of storage and I'm not sure RAID 0 scales well after about 3 drives.

[Evilsizer]

Has anyone here done a Raid 0 with the OCZ Colossus drives? How's the Raid preformance?

I'm curious about what would be the optimum number of SSD drives in a Raid for speed. Once I'm done putting together my SSD's I want to end up with 500GB-1TB of storage and I'm not sure RAID 0 scales well after about 3 drives.

your going to need a good raid card if you go with 3 or more. if you go with 2 then the ICH on the pro will be good enough. regardless of what SSD it is, they scale linearly in transfer rates.
http://www.nextlevelhardware.com/storage/battleship/

the colossus driver are costly, i dont think your going to find anyone here that has one. let alone two or more in a raid setup...

[newbski]

So since a Colossus already uses RAID 0 since it mates 2 SSD's together to make the colossus. Very interesting if you got the $$$ to get em I'd read your post on the results. :)

[deathman20]

The Colossus is a waste of bandwidth unless it has a SATA 6.0 connector on it. Sure writes will top out, the channel as well as reads but what it breaks down to is...

1 Vertex drive does 250-270 on Reads and 200ish on Writes
1 Colossus does 270-280 on Reads and Writes
2 Vertex drive does 500+ Reads and 400ish on Writes.

So for the better money its getting 2 single drives. Or if you want the space and proper speed like you'll need for said size unless you are buying 512Gig SSD drives is to get one that can put into your PCI-E Slot, or you'll want to buy a raid card and have those drive the SSD's.

2-3 SSD will top out Intel's onboard raid chipset. 2 Will do fine, the third will top it out on the reads, writes will still be good for 3-6 drives though depending on the drive.

[Kindle Blogger]

I've tried it and wouldn't recommend it. While the performance was stellar (linear reads and writes in excess of 500MB/s and 4K IOPS in 4K reads/writers) after several months the system became very unreliable. Periodically the system would stop seeing one of the drives that would cause a BSOD. This happened several times per week. So I gave it up and moved to a single drive config.

If you are curious here are the gory details: http://www.everydayinternetstuff.com/2011/03/ssd-raid-0-review-my-personal-experience/