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$10 price drop. Newegg has the new APRICORN VEL-SOLO-X2 Solo x2 Extreme Performance SSD Upgrade Kit for Desktop PCs and MacPro for $100 - 20% off with coupon code EMCJHNF237 - $20 rebate [Exp 1/31/13] = $60 with free shipping. Lets you add a solid state drive to a PCIe 2.0 slot and supports SATA III speeds up to 550MBs. Check out the press release.
$60
Anyone see reviews for this thing beside the 2 on Newegg? Wondering if it would work better then the the fake raid setup I have on an X58 motherboard.
No. Intel makes the best consumer SATA controllers around. Only use this thing if you can't use onboard for some reason.
Gimmicky at best, and unlike motherboard SATA, no TRIM support which is the main dealbreaker - performance will degrade over time without TRIM.
Thanks for the feedback #2!
#3, the info on their website says that it does support trim.
#5, *if the Operating System supports TRIM, note the asterisk. Its fineprint marketing bull$hit. They've carefully worded it to say the device supports TRIM, stopping short of saying TRIM is supported under Windows.
Reason being Windows currently only supports TRIM with the msahci driver or Intel RST driver, which means motherboard SATA. This POS has its own driver, shows up as a SCSI device, with a SCSI driver, and the drive shows up as a SCSI drive. Same boat as any add-on SATA or SAS controller card. And Windows does not currently support TRIM with SCSI disks, up to and including Windows8/Server 2012.
Now get out of my office.
Thanks for the feedback #2!
#6, thanks for the detailed explanation, was not aware of the details. I have my two SSDs in raid 0 on the Intel ICH10R. I don't know if that configuration supports TRIM but was told it wasn't really necessary if I gave the PC decent amount of idle time for Windows to do its own garbage collection. I know that the drives themselves do support TRIM.
ps: sorry for the double posts, I'm on a tiny phone screen.
@Wayne: TRIM for motherboard RAID0 currently only supported on Z77 mobos with latest Intel RST and OROM.
Now get out of my office.