Hi, I am currently considering buy an OCZ Agility 3 60GB for my new build and the specs say that RAISE is not installed on this drive as to allow more room to be useable by the owner.
I understand that RAISE lets you recover from a failed NAND chip, but does it do anything else that would extend the life of the drive?
This drive comes with a 3 yr. warranty and I will be using disk image software to back up data so a NAND chip failure (which is very rare anyway from what I understand) is not that large of an concern to me.
So, would it make a huge difference in the life of the drive?
I know that 60GB is not big and will buy another to RAID when windows supports TRIM in RAID0, which I understand will be soon.
I was considering the Vertex 3 MAX IOPS but the performance of these two series of SSD's are identical except for very very large incompressible data transfers, which I will not be doing (who would?)
So is RAISE worth it?
I understand that RAISE lets you recover from a failed NAND chip, but does it do anything else that would extend the life of the drive?
This drive comes with a 3 yr. warranty and I will be using disk image software to back up data so a NAND chip failure (which is very rare anyway from what I understand) is not that large of an concern to me.
So, would it make a huge difference in the life of the drive?
I know that 60GB is not big and will buy another to RAID when windows supports TRIM in RAID0, which I understand will be soon.
I was considering the Vertex 3 MAX IOPS but the performance of these two series of SSD's are identical except for very very large incompressible data transfers, which I will not be doing (who would?)
So is RAISE worth it?