First thanx GullLars for the advice from Anandtechs review. Ran some real world type tests on 16k (stated to be recommended for intel ssd's) and 128k (some swear by this one) stripe sizes. The 16k is definitely faster than the 128k (at least for intel) and i havent even fully optimized the OS yet. The 16k is also more responsive to me as Ourasi had mentioned in one of his posts. Here is a screenshot below. Left side is 16k stripe and right side is 128k stripe. Stuck to benchmarks that represent as much real world type stuff as possible since I dont like the synthetic type stuff. Pcmark05 and Vantage HDD Tests. But threw in a CrystalMark run also.
Also noticed this under Intels control center..
So it does seem that intel recommends the 16k also!! Also noticed that the Intel SSD's do clean themselves pretty well in Raid 0. Noticed that during testing, since subsequent tests would show lower results. Just had to wait a bit betweeen each run to get a realistic picture. Dont know how much trim would improve performance since the controller does a pretty good job itself it seems.
P.S. Tests done on an ICH10R
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