RAID - Strip Size

[Alcatraz1015]

Hello, let me go ahead and let you know this is a question pertaining to my gaming PC build, not a server. I just figured the best knowledge base would be located here. 
 

This weekend I will be configuring my build with two M.2 NVMe 500GB SSDs in RAID 0 for that sweet, sweet performance. This is my first RAID configuration and I realized I have no idea what Strip Size is pertaining to nor do I know what size will allow me to take full advantage of the read/write speeds of my two Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe drivers.

 

Can someone clue me in, please? I would appreciate the assistance!

 

i7-9700K

RTX 2080 FE

32GB DDR4 @ 3.3Ghz

MSI MPG Edge AC mobo

[Kilrah]

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/RAID-SCALING-CHARTS,1735-4.html

 

Typically doesn't matter but largest might do a tad for performance.

 

Note that your RAID0 won't give you much more throughput than a single drive becasue the NVMe slots are on the chipset and the DMI can't take much more than one drive's worth anyway, so no boasting with 6GB/s benchmarks. What you'll gain is more consistent speeds under heavy load as each drive is only doing half the work so caching/heating issues are less likely. You might pay a bit on latency and IOPS due to RAID controller overhead and drive synchronization.

 

I'd go (well I did on mine) with biggest stripes as that potentially means fewer IO operations.