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1 500gb SSD or 2, 256GB SSDs?

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26 minutes ago, Insprill. said:

2x 256gb ones and put them in RAID 0

Not worth it at all, you won't feel any difference what so ever in responsiveness and the higher the SSD capacity the better the driver is... more redundancy cells, more cache available, sometimes even better controllers and so on so picking the single highest capacity SSD is always a better way to go.

 

Raid0 also doesn't scale performance linearly like that... this video is great on the matter although it's about NVMe:

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Hello everyone! I've hosted a minecraft server for sometime now and am finally upgrading my hardware. I decided to go with a dell server that has 2x Xeon E5-2667v2 in it and i was wondering about storage, i was planning to get a 500GB SSD from samsung but then thought that maybe it would be better to get 2x 256gb ones and put them in RAID 0. I am aware about the failure chances and all that i always keep a backup on a separate system but i was wondering about speed. Each drive reads at about 550mb/s and writes at about 510mb/s so having them in RAID 0 would be pretty fast, but would it be to fast for the dual E5-2667v2?

 

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26 minutes ago, Insprill. said:

2x 256gb ones and put them in RAID 0

Not worth it at all, you won't feel any difference what so ever in responsiveness and the higher the SSD capacity the better the driver is... more redundancy cells, more cache available, sometimes even better controllers and so on so picking the single highest capacity SSD is always a better way to go.

 

Raid0 also doesn't scale performance linearly like that... this video is great on the matter although it's about NVMe:

Personal Desktop":

CPU: Intel Core i7 10700K @5ghz |~| Cooling: bq! Dark Rock Pro 4 |~| MOBO: Gigabyte Z490UD ATX|~| RAM: 16gb DDR4 3333mhzCL16 G.Skill Trident Z |~| GPU: RX 6900XT Sapphire Nitro+ |~| PSU: Corsair TX650M 80Plus Gold |~| Boot:  SSD WD Green M.2 2280 240GB |~| Storage: 1x3TB HDD 7200rpm Seagate Barracuda + SanDisk Ultra 3D 1TB |~| Case: Fractal Design Meshify C Mini |~| Display: Toshiba UL7A 4K/60hz |~| OS: Windows 10 Pro.

Luna, the temporary Desktop:

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