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RAIDing NVME. Good idea?

Thready
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I want to buy a 2nd NVME and RAID 0 them.

 

Is it worth it? 

 

Is the failure rate a big enough issue with NVME drives to warrant being safe and not doing it? I've owned many SSDs and not one has failed, so I'm confident I won't have that problem

 

Will I get noticeably better speeds?

 

Do I need extra hardware?

 

What would you do?

 

Thanks everyone

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2 minutes ago, Thready said:

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Do you mean bootable RAID, or just storage space?

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1 minute ago, Lord Mirdalan said:

Do you mean bootable RAID, or just storage space?

It depends on whether or not I have problems. I plan on buying an x470 board with 3 m.2 slots and I might use the bottom one for my mSATA SSD and run Windows 10 off that if I have problems with booting on the RAID.

 

I'd prefer to put Windows on the RAID drives though

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2 minutes ago, Thready said:

It depends on whether or not I have problems. I plan on buying an x470 board with 3 m.2 slots and I might use the bottom one for my mSATA SSD and run Windows 10 off that if I have problems with booting on the RAID.

 

I'd prefer to put Windows on the RAID drives though

I don't know about AMD< but Intel charges for a bootable RAID "upgrade key".

 

This might help though:

 

 

Screwdriver specs: Long, pointy. Turns things. Some kind of metal.

 

Main rig: 

i9-7900x | Asus X299-Prime | 4x8GB G-Skill TridentZ @3300MHz | Samsung 970 Evo 500GB | Intel 5400S 1TB | Corsair HX1200

 

unRAID server:

Xeon  E5-1630v4 |  Asus X99-E WS | 4x8GB G-Skill DDR4 @2400MHz | Samsung 960 EVO 250GB cache drive | 12TB spinning rust | Corsair RM750X

 

FreeNAS server:

AMD something-or-other | Asus prebuilt sadness | 8GB DDR3-1600 | 9TB magnetic storage | Potential fire threat

 

HTPC:

i7-4790 | GTX1650 | Dell Sadness | 12GB DDR3-1600 | Samsung 860 250GB | 1TB magnetic storage | James Loudspeaker SPL3 x2 | Corsair SF450

 

 

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56 minutes ago, 5x5 said:

NVMe Raid makes as much sense as deep sea astronomy or gravidaviation

Lol for real? Dang 

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19 hours ago, Thready said:

Lol for real? Dang 

For typical home use the answer is usually no :P

Do you have a workload that can take advantage of (simply said) 2x <write speed of SSD in question>, probably a few GB/s? If not, then no, you won't really see an improvement, or at least you won't take advantage of the fact that you have it.

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I think @Den-Fi runs some RAID-ed NVMe drives, but he's dumping stuff onto them as a cache on his NAS over a 10GbE connection IIRC. I doubt you're gonna reach nirvana by slapping Windows 10 on a set of them. 

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I did it because it was funny, not because it was useful.

Does make for a nice cache though.

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1 minute ago, Den-Fi said:

I did it because it was funny, not because it was useful.

Does make for a nice cache though.

If you don't run Puppy Linux off them, what are you even doing with your life? 

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CPU: i9 7980XE @4.5GHz/1.22v/-2 AVX offset 

Cooler: EKWB Supremacy Block - custom loop w/360mm +280mm rads 

Motherboard: EVGA X299 Dark 

RAM:4x8GB HyperX Predator DDR4 @3200Mhz CL16 

GPU: Nvidia FE 2060 Super/Corsair HydroX 2070 FE block 

Storage:  1TB MP34 + 1TB 970 Evo + 500GB Atom30 + 250GB 960 Evo 

Optical Drives: LG WH14NS40 

PSU: EVGA 1600W T2 

Case & Fans: Corsair 750D Airflow - 3x Noctua iPPC NF-F12 + 4x Noctua iPPC NF-A14 PWM 

OS: Windows 11

 

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