Im mad, i want to make a raid 0 with M.2 drives

[OLDBYTE]

Hi guys,

My name is Borja (a spanish dude) and you know i love to have a good setup, i always wanted to make a raid with m.2 and now that i can afford it i ask it , is worth it?

Because here in spain the m.2 prices are a little high (we have a tax on hard drives) so what do you recommend me guys?

Thank you so much.

[Sakkura]

It's absolutely not worth it for general use, and you'd need a HEDT platform to even be able to do it.

 

Just get a bigger single NVMe drive.

[Mira Yurizaki]

Second for just getting a higher capacity NVMe drive or, if it's significantly cheaper, a SATA one. NVMe doesn't even provide appreciable performance benefits for single user at-a-time systems.

[Dedayog]

I put my 2 1TB 860's in RAID 0 and I see a 25% reduction in Ark load times for what it's worth.  I wouldn't do NVMe RAID, but SATA was a nice boost so far.

[SupaKomputa]

a 1TB SSD is just dual 512gb in Raid 0 (from performance perspective). You can see the benchmark.

So if you want is double bandwidth, get double capacity.

Running raid 0 on ssd is just not worth it. How many bandwidth do you need?

Are you prepared to loose all the data when one of the drive screw's up?

Raid 0 suppose to reduce the seek time in regular HDD, but with flash drive, seek time is non existance.

[OLDBYTE]

36 minutes ago, Sakkura said:

It's absolutely not worth it for general use, and you'd need a HEDT platform to even be able to do it.

 

Just get a bigger single NVMe drive.

 

30 minutes ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

Second for just getting a higher capacity NVMe drive or, if it's significantly cheaper, a SATA one. NVMe doesn't even provide appreciable performance benefits for single user at-a-time systems.

 

24 minutes ago, jstudrawa said:

I put my 2 1TB 860's in RAID 0 and I see a 25% reduction in Ark load times for what it's worth.  I wouldn't do NVMe RAID, but SATA was a nice boost so far.

 

11 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

a 1TB SSD is just dual 512gb in Raid 0 (from performance perspective). You can see the benchmark.

So if you want is double bandwidth, get double capacity.

Running raid 0 on ssd is just not worth it. How many bandwidth do you need?

Are you prepared to loose all the data when one of the drive screw's up?

Raid 0 suppose to reduce the seek time in regular HDD, but with flash drive, seek time is non existance.

Thank guys, im gonna explain some details here:

I have a x470 aorus motherboard with a ryzen 5, im a media editor and i ussually need a lot of speed on my system, i also like to play games a max setings you know and because of that its been in my mind to update my system with some dope raid 0, and i know that if something bad happens 
 im fucked up but im gonna do a full backup on a 2 TB hard drive so... what m.2 you recommend for the two situations, with raid and without. 

And thank you so much guys

[Mira Yurizaki]

1 minute ago, OLDBYTE said:

Thank guys, im gonna explain some details here:

I have a x470 aorus motherboard with a ryzen 5, im a media editor and i ussually need a lot of speed on my system, i also like to play games a max setings you know and because of that its been in my mind to update my system with some dope raid 0, and i know that if something bad happens 
 im fucked up but im gonna do a full backup on a 2 TB hard drive so... what m.2 you recommend for the two situations, with raid and without. 

And thank you so much guys

NVMe does not impact the performance of games compared to SATA SSDs, even in load times.

 

For media editing, it would be helpful to figure out if your storage drive is the bottleneck or not before actually committing to a faster drive:

 

[SupaKomputa]

 

[OLDBYTE]

18 minutes ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

NVMe does not impact the performance of games compared to SATA SSDs, even in load times.

 

For media editing, it would be helpful to figure out if your storage drive is the bottleneck or not before actually committing to a faster drive:

 

 

12 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

 

Wow i see that isnt that big deal, ok i have here two nvme just for the boot drive, are they worth it?

 

https://www.pccomponentes.com/intel-consumer-ssd-660p-1tb-nvme-m2-pci-express-30-retail

 

https://www.amazon.es/Samsung-970-EVO-500GB-M-2/dp/B07CGGP7SV/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1551740552&sr=8-1&keywords=samsung%2B%2Bm.2&th=1

[Mira Yurizaki]

7 minutes ago, OLDBYTE said:

 

Wow i see that isnt that big deal, ok i have here two nvme just for the boot drive, are they worth it?

 

https://www.pccomponentes.com/intel-consumer-ssd-660p-1tb-nvme-m2-pci-express-30-retail

 

https://www.amazon.es/Samsung-970-EVO-500GB-M-2/dp/B07CGGP7SV/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1551740552&sr=8-1&keywords=samsung%2B%2Bm.2&th=1

The 660p is an iffy performer, especially when full, but if ~130 EUR is all you can spend and you're shoving games and media work on it, 1TB seems more compelling.

[OLDBYTE]

2 minutes ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

The 660p is an iffy performer, especially when full, but if ~130 EUR is all you can spend and you're shoving games and media work on it, 1TB seems more compelling.

Thanks mate, i will buy it.