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I've been thinking about getting an SSD, i don't Need one but everybody says its such an improvement. I figured as long as im spending the money maybe i should just go all out and do something like 2 120gb drives in raid 0, would you suggest this to be a good idea?

 

Also are there any SSDs that I should stay away from or are they all pretty much okay?

 

Thanks in advance

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If it was me I would just get a 240gb SSD, more reliable. 

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That is not a good idea. You really get no performance improvement on RAID0 on SSD's and in the rare event of a failure, you lose everything. Typically a single 240GB will have better performance as well then a single (or raid0) 120GB one.

 

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That is not a good idea. You really get no performance improvement on RAID0 on SSD's and in the rare event of a failure, you lose everything. Typically a single 240GB will have better performance as well then a single (or raid0) 120GB one.

 

Intel, Samsung, Kingston, Plextor all make good products. Scandisk as well..

 

All he says is true, except for the Scandisk part, never heard of it...  ;)

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That is not a good idea. You really get no performance improvement on RAID0 on SSD's and in the rare event of a failure, you lose everything. Typically a single 240GB will have better performance as well then a single (or raid0) 120GB one.

 

Intel, Samsung, Kingston, Plextor all make good products. Scandisk as well..

Scandisk or Sandisk? :)

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After a couple of weeks my Raid 0 plummeted  to the speeds of a single ssd, Don't bother.

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There's little point putting ssd's in raid 0 for normal use. It only increases sequential transfer speeds when what makes the system feel snappy and fast is the random read speed and random access time.

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If you really do want it why not go for it? after all the "wants" are what drive us the most compared to the needs.

 

If that were me and I want it I'd go with it and regret all the bejesus later when something went wrong.[

 

but I didn't want it nor need it so I'm happy with a single boot.

 

or you could do it this way.

 

buy a single 120gb ssd like the intel 335 or something reliable. then grab a samsung evo 1tb for main game storage. then a couple of wd black 2tb-4tb for steam games. and another 2tb-4tb red for media and other file. of course you should not buy it all in 1 go if the cost will be not eating 3 meals a day.

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Terrible idea; unnoticeable gains, increased failure risk, more expensive. There's no point.

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I've been thinking about getting an SSD, i don't Need one but everybody says its such an improvement. I figured as long as im spending the money maybe i should just go all out and do something like 2 120gb drives in raid 0, would you suggest this to be a good idea?

 

Also are there any SSDs that I should stay away from or are they all pretty much okay?

 

Thanks in advance

 

Unless you are doing large serial writes and reads a RAID 0 array of ssd can actual perform worse than a single larger drive. You can see the numbers at http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485-13.html.

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