I'm thinking about doing RAID 0 with 2 SSDs

[SaHaRzZz]

So I ended up having two 2TB Samsung  pm883 Enterprise SSDs, and I'm thinking about doing RAID 0.
Mainly because I don't see the point for having 4TB of SSD storage and because it will help me with game development map rendering, video editing, etc.
 

I read a lot of people saying 'Too risky', 'Not worth it' and things like that, but I already have the drives.

Should I do it? or should I just leave it as it is?
doubling the performance does sound good.. especially when dealing with VR content and things like that.
Thanks!

[Lady Fitzgerald]

If you don't need any more space that 2TB, I suggest that you use one in the computer and get an external case for the other one and use it as a backup drive.

 

I real life usage, you will not see any difference in speed between a single SSD and two in RAID 0.

[Firewrath9]

well you'll need a NVMe Raid controller, expect to pay around 500-750$ for one of those, unless you want software RAID which I've found to be not really worth it.

You also can't boot on software raid arrays.

Perhaps, but only if you really need good sequential reads and writes

[Gorgon]

For video rendering it can be useful as a scratch disk but I wouldn't put anything on it that you want to keep as you've just halved the reliability.

 

I use

2 128GB SSDs in RAID1 on eRST (Intel Rapid Storage - i.e. software) for boot for the OS and Apps

2 250GB SSDs in RAID0 on a LSI Controller for "Scratch"

4 3TB NAS Disks in RAID10 on an LSI Controller as local storage

 

Try it out and run some benchmarks to see the performance changes as just disks, a logical disk spanning the two, raid0, raid1 etc.