Enable TRIM in RAID 0?

[Awakening]

CPU (if it matters): i7-6700K

Motherboard: https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/Z170-PREMIUM/

SSD: http://www.pny.eu/consumer/explore-all-products/solid-state-drives/606-pny-cs1311-series-2-5-in-sata-iii-240gb

OS: Windows 10 Enterprise

 

I really want to use five SSDs in RAID 0 instead of using a 950 Pro. I understand the negatives, but I feel like the extra storage is worth the trade offs. The only thing that scares me is that I'm seeing a lot of mention that TRIM doesn't work for most RAID 0 setups with SSDs. If I can't get TRIM to work, my performance will degrade severely over time and the only way to fix it without TRIM is to format the drives (at least that's what I've been reading) and I'm not going to do that every month. With that said, could someone please let me know if my OS and hardware will allow my SSDs to use TRIM in RAID 0? If not, what SSD model would be compatible if that's the issue? My max per ~240 GB SSD is $80.

 

Any help would be very much appreciated. I'm having trouble finding this out for myself.

[Skiiwee29]

3 minutes ago, Awakening said:

CPU (if it matters): i7-6700K

Motherboard: https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/Z170-PREMIUM/

SSD: http://www.pny.eu/consumer/explore-all-products/solid-state-drives/606-pny-cs1311-series-2-5-in-sata-iii-240gb

OS: Windows 10 Enterprise

 

I really want to use five SSDs in RAID 0 instead of using a 950 Pro. I understand the negatives, but I feel like the extra storage is worth the trade offs. The only thing that scares me is that I'm seeing a lot of mention that TRIM doesn't work for most RAID 0 setups with SSDs. If I can't get TRIM to work, my performance will degrade severely over time and the only way to fix it without TRIM is to format the drives (at least that's what I've been reading) and I'm not going to do that every month. With that said, could someone please let me know if my OS and hardware will allow my SSDs to use TRIM in RAID 0? If not, what SSD model would be compatible if that's the issue? My max per ~240 GB SSD is $80.

 

Any help would be very much appreciated. I'm having trouble finding this out for myself.

IIRC TRIM Is not supported with Raid0 so no. Honestly I see no point in Raid 0 with SSD's anyways they are ridiculously fast as it is. 

[Awakening]

17 minutes ago, legacy99 said:

IIRC TRIM Is not supported with Raid0 so no. Honestly I see no point in Raid 0 with SSD's anyways they are ridiculously fast as it is. 

Because I want better performance and more storage. 1 TB SSDs are usually more expensive than 500 GB SSDs per GB.

[SkilledRebuilds]

Dont SSDs have some sort of background low level 'garbage collection' whether trim is on or not.

[Awakening]

6 minutes ago, SkilledRebuilds said:

Dont SSDs have some sort of background low level 'garbage collection' whether trim is on or not.

Yes, garbage collection still works, but I'm pretty sure TRIM still needs to happen every once in a while or performance degradation starts happening. I could be wrong though. It's hard to read though all the technical information to find what I want to know.

 

It looks like Intel SSDs support TRIM now, but they're so expensive they're not even worth whatever advantages they have. I'm not kidding, they're about twice the price of other SSDs of the same capacity. It's like they priced them all back in 2010 and haven't updated the prices at all.