RAID storage setups have been, in the past, a good way to bump up your system’s storage performance. Given that platter based drives were the slowest component in a computer any added speed was always welcome when doing any sort of disk-based activity which includes pretty much every program.

HardOCP has a look at how well Intel’s ICH10R southbridge and Highpoint RocketRAID 4310 RAID handle Corsair P256s from a single drive setup all the way to a four drive RAID 0 configuration:

Since we are not reviewing the SSDs used here we are not terribly
concerned with the actual performance of the drives. Rather, we are
looking at what sort of scaling we get under Windows 7 and the Intel
ICH10R chipset. Since many of today’s SSDs are able to match the
performance of the Corsair P256 SSD it makes sense then to find at what
point do we hit a wall.

Interesting results and it’s somewhat surprising to see the on-board solution do so well.