Hi all,
I've ordered a 2.6Ghz Quad i7 Mac Mini with everything else as stock and I'm gonna upgrade it myself to 16Gb of Ram and 2 SSD drives in Raid 0 for best read/write performance.
I'll be using this to process hundreds of raw images, disk speed is important.
This machine will only have the current job in it, backup to a time machine drive. I'm aware of the risks of a Raid 0 setup and I can live with that.
The main concern I have is loosing performance as the drives get "dirty" over time. For what I've researched Intel 520 and Samsung 840 are great SSD drives, but this review doesn't speak well of the Intel 520 in a non-Trim environment: http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...0-240gb-ssd-raid-0-performance-review-10.html
Is it Trim lost once I set the drives in Raid 0? Will the Samsung 840 perform better over time or will have the same problem?
Any thoughts on this are welcome.
I've ordered a 2.6Ghz Quad i7 Mac Mini with everything else as stock and I'm gonna upgrade it myself to 16Gb of Ram and 2 SSD drives in Raid 0 for best read/write performance.
I'll be using this to process hundreds of raw images, disk speed is important.
This machine will only have the current job in it, backup to a time machine drive. I'm aware of the risks of a Raid 0 setup and I can live with that.
The main concern I have is loosing performance as the drives get "dirty" over time. For what I've researched Intel 520 and Samsung 840 are great SSD drives, but this review doesn't speak well of the Intel 520 in a non-Trim environment: http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...0-240gb-ssd-raid-0-performance-review-10.html
Is it Trim lost once I set the drives in Raid 0? Will the Samsung 840 perform better over time or will have the same problem?
Any thoughts on this are welcome.