Solid State Drive Raid 0?

[hankweed]

Hey guys so i got two questions. 1. I have 1 Solid state drive the Corsair force 3 120gb running in my system can i buy another 1 and raid it? would it make it even faster? would there be a downside? 2. I bought this SSD Corsair force 3

http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Force...8T52/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1325852201&sr=8-2

and i was thinking to buy this one for raid 0

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233206

Notice how there two different models or versions? one is CSSD-F120GB3-BK and the other is CSSD-F120GB3A-BK. Is this compatible? could i raid these 2 together?

 

[tremmor]

Don't raid0 with SSD drives. There is only so many writes with SSD.

 

[johnb35]

Yes you could raid them together, a lot of users do raid SSD's.

 

[Briilee]

A RAID setup with SSDs will of course increase the speed of everything even more, but given the price of it, it is not really worth it, due to the performance/price ratio.
The two SSDs you linked are completely identical, but the CSSD-F120GB3A-BK comes shipped with firmware 1.3.
So you will need to make sure the two drives has the same firmware before setting up RAID.

 

[hankweed]

thanks for the reply guys. So how would i do a firmware upgrade without being in windows?

 

[ScottALot]

You'd have to download it and put it on a flash drive or something and boot to it.