stickies Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Hi, all I currently have two ******** SSD's in a raid 0 I want to put them into another rig and buy two more SSD's of course I have always loved Corsair products! I am thinking of buying two 60gb Series 3 Sata III drives for a raid-0. I was looking through the forum and it seems to me it is a little time consuming to secure erase them with having to burn iso and the such. I don't need to back up anything cause I use them as a boot drive only. Now ******** has tools that make secure erasing real easy now am I missing something here what does it take to secure erase a Corsair SSD? I do have two rigs so I usually plug them into a different rig to secure erase my ******** drives which I can do both in about 1 minute for both SSD's. Please guide me here as I am interested in Corsair SSD's but want to know the process thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acejimmy Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 I'd maybe hold off till you can get hold of these: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2124447/corsair-looks-marvell-trim-support-raid-ssds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stickies Posted November 11, 2011 Author Share Posted November 11, 2011 It may take a bit of time to run the bugs out but those are not as fast as the series 3 and with me having two 60's in a raid-0 my read/writes will be very high compared to one of those. Maybe someone can chime in and let me know the process for secure erasing the series 3 drives other wise I have two stick with OXC only cause secure erasing is real fast and easy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowbeard Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 On my daily driver rig (Force3 120GB x 2 in RAID-0) so far the onboard garbage collection from SF seems to be keeping the speeds up just fine. Of course, your overall disk usage may play into it if you put a lot of data on the array. Any drive or array is going to slow as it fills. Based on my machine, I think you'll be OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stickies Posted November 11, 2011 Author Share Posted November 11, 2011 On my daily driver rig (Force3 120GB x 2 in RAID-0) so far the onboard garbage collection from SF seems to be keeping the speeds up just fine. Of course, your overall disk usage may play into it if you put a lot of data on the array. Any drive or array is going to slow as it fills. Based on my machine, I think you'll be OK. huh???? your answer don't pertain to my question....... All I am asking is there an easy way to secure erase the Corsair Series 3 SSD's? from I can read it is a long timely process. ******** has tools I can do two of their drives in about one minute. I WANT to buy two corsair ssd's if the process is real easy so what is the process to secure erase them. Thank you for your time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowbeard Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 I jumped to the conclusion that you were asking about secure erasing and imaging your OS because of the lack of TRIM in RAID-0. It's a popular question. Secure erase is easy, there is a HOW TO in our HOW TO section. I have a dedicated flash drive with Parted Magic on it just for this purpose. As you noted about the utility you listed, Parted Magic too is fast n easy. Total time for 2 disks, less than 5 min. The actual secure erase function takes about 5 seconds in most cases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hipster Doofus Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Very easy to secure erase. Pretty sure there is a sickie on how to do it. Don't burn the iso, put it on a usb stick. Took no more than five minutes to do both of my SSDs. Parted Magic I think the program is called. Make sure you update the firmware before you begin. Edit: and there ya go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 I think what Yellowbeard was referring to was the need to secure erase, as in you shouldn't need to secure erase it to keep up the performance just because it's in a RAID configuration which doesn't have TRIM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stickies Posted November 11, 2011 Author Share Posted November 11, 2011 I jumped to the conclusion that you were asking about secure erasing and imaging your OS because of the lack of TRIM in RAID-0. It's a popular question. Secure erase is easy, there is a HOW TO in our HOW TO section. I have a dedicated flash drive with Parted Magic on it just for this purpose. As you noted about the utility you listed, Parted Magic too is fast n easy. Total time for 2 disks, less than 5 min. The actual secure erase function takes about 5 seconds in most cases. Ok that is what I was asking thank you! trying to decide if which manufacturer SSD's to buy thank you again that helped me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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