UMBP 17" + 2 new Samsung SSDs in RAID0 (BENCHMARK)

[CTechKid]

Silly numbers!

But I'm more interested in your feedback regarding the Optibay. Easy install? Quality construction? Would you buy it again?

 

[ccie7599]

I never thought someone would make me feel good for spending $800 on the Intel X25M, but the OP did so. I got a 204 on Xbench as well, and spent $1200 on the drive (albeit for much less capacity, but I don't need mountains of super-high speed storage like the OP). And I was able to get it through a on-the-market HD, didn't have to go through an Ebay rigamorol (sic), was able to order it through a real-life reseller (OK, it was MacMall, but close enough).

Something about these SSD RAID0 setups is off-putting. Running it on pre-release hardware, where FW or HW issues are a real possibility- in a striped setup, meaning either one of the two drives could fail and POOF, the entire array is bye-bye. Oh well- take the $300 you didn't spend on the CPU upgrade and buy a FW800 Hard Drive, and run SuperDuper/CCC lots and lots.

 

[JtheLemur]

+1 for I HATE YOU.

But will let y'all know if my order for the drive at $715 comes through.

 

[UNO]

Silly numbers!

But I'm more interested in your feedback regarding the Optibay. Easy install? Quality construction? Would you buy it again?

I would say it's solid - in fact it didn't exactly "fit" the 17" MBP. No manual for unibody installation, not all holes for screwed were there, but luckily it was "close enough". So, if you have patience I'd recommend talking to them to make sure they send a unibody-compatible unit with proper instructions.

 

[UNO]

I never thought someone would make me feel good for spending $800 on the Intel X25M, but the OP did so. I got a 204 on Xbench as well, and spent $1200 on the drive (albeit for much less capacity, but I don't need mountains of super-high speed storage like the OP). And I was able to get it through a on-the-market HD, didn't have to go through an Ebay rigamorol (sic), was able to order it through a real-life reseller (OK, it was MacMall, but close enough).

Something about these SSD RAID0 setups is off-putting. Running it on pre-release hardware, where FW or HW issues are a real possibility- in a striped setup, meaning either one of the two drives could fail and POOF, the entire array is bye-bye. Oh well- take the $300 you didn't spend on the CPU upgrade and buy a FW800 Hard Drive, and run SuperDuper/CCC lots and lots.

I sync most important files with mobileme and when I'm back to base, with TimeMachine. Work-related files are always sent to the company immediately.

 

[simonpickard]

Just wondering if anyone knows how much speed boost you get going from 1 of these drives to raid0 with 2?

As it's software raid just wondering what the boost really is? Does having the raid in software slow down the rest of the machine in any way?

Regards,
Simon