Recently I came across a good deal for two Intel 80gb SSDs. However, they are first generation Intel SSDs, with no TRIM (discard) support, but that's OK because the plan was to use them in a cheap motherboard RAID 0. Motherboard raid configurations do not support passing through the TRIM command to the devices. This means that paying a premium for TRIM would be a waste of money anyway.

SanDisk Cruzer Titanium x6Can a software raid array of 6 usb flash drives perform well? Is it silly to even try? Well theres one way to find out.

Flash memory as a main storage medium is a relatively new phenomenon. Flash is known for its lack of seek time, so we wanted to see just how much bandwidth we could squeeze out of these devices over the USB bus.

It turns out that even with all of the limitations of the USB bus working against us we were still able to obtain some very good results at a very nice pricepoint.