Raid with ssd for boot drive?

[Andrew3vans]

I have across another ssd for my computer for free. I have a 240 ssd as a boot drive and the one I found is a 256. I was wondering could I do a raid with the boot ssd and the spare ssd and create more space on my boot drive?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Doing this would require wiping all the data, its probably best to use the second ssd s. separate drive.  

[Andrew3vans]

4 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Doing this would require wiping all the data, its probably best to use the second ssd s. separate drive.  

Ok. I just had limited space on my boot drive. I was just curious. I'll just use it as storage for games. Thanks for the advice! 

[Kisai]

2 hours ago, Andrew3vans said:

I have across another ssd for my computer for free. I have a 240 ssd as a boot drive and the one I found is a 256. I was wondering could I do a raid with the boot ssd and the spare ssd and create more space on my boot drive?

I wouldn't recommend it. RAID with SSD's under 500GB tend to just kill the drives faster for no real benefit. Even if you had a hardware RAID controller I wouldn't recommend it. 

 

NVMe drives are supposed to use the "RAID" driver to bypass the AHCI emulation to get additional performance, but usually creating a RAID array of SSD's this way just makes it more likely the RAID array will be obliterated if you don't have a hardware RAID controller with a BBU or your system doesn't have a UPS. It's pretty much a requirement to have a battery backup otherwise you have to turn write-caching off on drives, and doing so on SSD's means they wear out fast.