Quote Originally Posted by DragoonXX View Post
yeah, no kidding
I am also incredibly impressed with both the results and willingness of the participants, it sure has taught me a lot about not needing to baby my SSDs nearly as much as I have been, lol. on a slightly OT to this- does anyone know of any good methods of running drive maintenance on raid0 X-25Vs...or is stripping them out of a raid config to run TRIM pretty much the only viable method to restore "factory fresh" type running conditions?
I short stroked mine, but I use the array just for a couple steam games like Civ 5, Deus Ex, and New Vegas. The Intel controller is really robust and good at handling life without trim. If you have much free space on there at all it shouldn't really get bad, but one option is to copy some very large files to the drives. The sequential file writes will level everything off. You could copy over some digital videos or perhaps .ISO files, then delete them (but you'd know if your performance was in the toilets, so save this for a rainy day). If you are running your OS on the drive, then it will get more beaten up without TRIM, and the X25 V is disadvantaged due to its size, but the Vs are pretty tough.