SSDs and RAID 0 Questions

[AllenSalar]

Hello. For the longest time, I had a single 240GB SSD on my desktop, which I really just use for gaming (usually either just DotA 2, CS:GO, or GTA V), so the space was enough. Then the time came when I felt like playing more different games and I didn't really feel like uninstalling and re-installing games that I want to play. So I got a 2nd 240GB SSD (exact same one as the first one). When I first hooked it up, I noticed that my boot time was decreased again. 2 SSDs > RAID 0 (2 SSDs) = 1 SSD > 1 HDD. Then I thought of putting my 2 SSDs into a single RAID 0. Then I noticed that the boot time is if it was like a single SSD again.

 

My questions are:

1. Why are the 2 SSDs (un-RAID'ed) faster than the RAID 0 in boot time?

2. According to Crystal Disk Mark, the Seq. Read/Write is indeed faster, although, does this affect gaming load times as well? (I did not see a noticeable difference in my gaming load time, in fact, it might be slower)

3. If I was just going for performance, what would your opinion be? (Regardless of risk. As well as in terms of keeping it as 2 single SSD drives or keeping them in RAID 0)

 

My system is:

Spoiler

AMD FX-6300
MSI GeForce GTX 750 TI Gaming Edition
2x240GB SanDisk Plus SSDs
1x8GB HyperX Fury RAM

 

Thank you.

[Enderman]

1) raid needs to be initialized before you can boot from it

 

2) games do not use 1GBps, you do not need raid 0 for games

 

3) either buy an NVME SSD because you're a content creator or something, or buy a regular sata HDD and do not do raid

 

software raid on consumer motherboards is crap, and you will probably lose all your data at least once in your lifetime

 

for games, space is a lot more important, so one larger SSD will be far more beneficial than a small fast SSD

[AllenSalar]

3 minutes ago, Enderman said:

1) raid needs to be initialized before you cna boot from it

 

How did a second SSD help my system boot faster then?

[Enderman]

3 minutes ago, AllenSalar said:

How did a second SSD help my system boot faster then?

did you do a clean install when you added the SSD in raid 0?

[AllenSalar]

2 minutes ago, Enderman said:

did you do a clean install when you added the SSD in raid 0?

Yes, I did.

 

Also, I meant the second SSD made my system boot faster before I boot them both in RAID 0.

[Enderman]

12 minutes ago, AllenSalar said:

Yes, I did.

 

Also, I meant the second SSD made my system boot faster before I boot them both in RAID 0.

then its not the second SSD making it faster, its the clean install

 

adding a second SSD without raid literally does nothing to your boot speed

[AllenSalar]

I see. Well thank you, kind sir.