mbreslin,

I don't know yet, the LSI is not the same as the ICH.
The C300 is very much like the Intel drives, they seem to work well in all configurations, I wouldn't change the stripe size for now.
I'll continue my testing and I'll let you know what I find out.
As for the extra wear, I don't think it makes that much of a difference.
My Intel drives have been running for 7-8 months at low stripe sizes, I'll check Host Writes on the drives.

BTW, are you running all drives in one array?

I've had a few disturbing dropouts on one of my C300s on the LSI, quite strange imo.
It only happens using AS SSD when Write Back is activated and only while measuring Write Access time.
(it has happened twice, once a week ago while testing one drive and it happened again last night using 2 drives)