Is Raid 0 2x Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB SSDs on an Asus ROG Strix X490-F, worth it?

Schmo · December 4, 2020

I've not used Raid 0 since I raided two 36GB Western Digital Raptor WD360GD HDDs back in early 2000s. I know NVMe SSDs are totally different to SATA HDDs, but with two M.2 slots on this motherboard and two of these m.2 SSDs, is it worth raiding them (just for fun) or leaving them as independent?

Thanks!

WhitetailAni · December 4, 2020

I would personally not RAID them and instead stick them in a storage pool via Windows.

If one drive fails, your data is toast.

But it could be fun to try out.

Vishera · December 4, 2020

1 hour ago, Schmo said:

M.2 slots on this motherboard and two of these drives SSDs, is it worth raiding them (just for fun) or leaving them as independent?

I had rather buy a 2TB drive,since the higher the capacity of a SSD the higher the expected longevity.

SupaKomputa · December 4, 2020

1 hour ago, Schmo said:

is it worth raiding them (just for fun) or leaving them as independent?

For fun yeah, why not.

But getting twice the capacity is probably better than having 2 in raid.

Larger capacity in ssd tends to perform better than the smaller one.

Schmo · December 4, 2020

9 hours ago, ragnarok0273 said:

I would personally not RAID them and instead stick them in a storage pool via Windows.

If one drive fails, your data is toast.

But it could be fun to try out.

I don't really care too much about data loss as I have a bunch of backup HDDs for stuff I want to keep. M.2 drives are only for Windows and Games, and anything else that's easily downloadable again.

8 hours ago, Vishera said:

I had rather buy a 2TB drive,since the higher the capacity of a SSD the higher the expected longevity.

Yeah, but this isn't really about storage. I already have an 8 Tb NAS for that. I was just curious on any performance gains, as I happened to have two of these drives.

7 hours ago, SupaKomputa said:

For fun yeah, why not.

But getting twice the capacity is probably better than having 2 in raid.

Larger capacity in ssd tends to perform better than the smaller one.

I might give it a spin for fun I guess. I did read that larger capacity m.2's tend to perform better than lower ones (even lower ones that are in Raid). I'll report back if there's anything worth noting.

Cheers for the replies!