It's consider normal . no worries, ur mSATA is acting normally ^^

yours is SSD Raid 0 right?

Sometimes it depends on ur startup software/services, if you install more thing (which will startup automatically when windows logon) , then it might takes longer time to boot because of it need times to load those startup application.

Mine also sad, the fastest is 27Sec, after install few application, now become 40Sec ( never try 10sec bootup before)

what mobo u're using? iirc, i saw some article before where there's some raid issue with certain mobo.

Guys, since my OS is residing in the SSD, i believe it is wise to back the whole content to the other harddisk. Suppose something happen to the SSD later, I could quickly restore the backup on new SSD. Does that concept workable and what software can be used for that purpose.

you mean intel raid controller? @@

Nope, with PCIE 2.0 X 1, you only get max 500MB/s from the card.
Using 2 of your SSDs in raid, each will share the 500MB/s,
therefore you are actually getting the performance of a single SSD, maybe less. 

You should be looking for at least a PCIe 2.0 x 2 card (500MB/s x 2 = 1000MB/s). But on the market, after x1, the next cards are in x4 (2000MB/s) and x8 (4000MB/s).

However, there are things which you need to research carefully, such as compatibility with your motherboard, your SSD, performance issues (different chipset/hardware-based/software-based RAID) and if the card supports booting.

Another point to ponder, since everyone knows that Intel SATA chipset gives the best performance for SSDs, so far none of the RAID cards are using Intel chipset. Heck even Intel branded RAID cards are just a re-badge of LSI cards. So the performance you get from a RAID card even with sufficient bandwidth, might be somewhere the same as your current on-board RAID controller. Some might improve the write speed, but decreases the read speed and VICE VERSA. It really depends on the characteristics of the RAID card.

Yes, LSI is one of the highly rated RAID cards out there. But even that, I have seen reviews from people saying it did not give them the full performance expected off their SSDs.

Yes and No. It depend on how many SSD you are raiding and what's the max speed a Raid controller will be working on.

Say you have 4unit of SSD performing 500MB Read/400MB write, dumping on a 1 Channel Raid0, on a  Raid card tat max at 2GB Read/ 1.8GB Write; you most probably still won't be maxing out what the Raid card

No. Raid is like Crossfire/SLI neither its on mobo nor Raid card, you won't always get the multiplies of performance  on the number of your drives

IMO forking out on a RAID card, not knowing whether it will perform up to your expectations or not does not justify it, unless if your motherboard currently does not support RAID.

400+ for Raid card or ssd??

rm400+ u can get Promise/highpoint one only

try bench with AS SSD and take the screenshot

does your mobo shipset supports trim in raid mode?

Planning to get a 120GB SSD for my OS and a few games, should i get the Intel or Crucial?