First venture into Raid 0

[Trip]

Evening folks,

 

     Ebuyer was selling 120GB Kingston HyperX 3K SSDs at £58 each and with my OCZ Agility 3 Refurb

no longer under warranty and OCZ going bust I decided to go for 2 of these little beauties.

 

Honestly though, how stable is Raid 0? From your experiences how often is there a corruption of Data?

I plan on running them as an OS drive through my Motherboards (ASRock z77 e-itx) Bios. And I shall be

most likely performing backups once a week onto my 1TB SSHD (With 500GB set aside for backups).

Is this often enough do you think?

 

All crucial work data etc will be stored on the SSHD as opposed to on the Raid array, which will be mostly

OS, general applications and some games.

 

 

 

 

 

ps. If any Brits are interested in purchasing some they're now at £65 still pretty cheap

http://www.ebuyer.com/363436-kingston-120gb-hyperx-3k-2-5inch-ssd-sh103s3-120g

[ShadowCaptain]

I run raid 0 pretty much on everything, never had a problem yet

 

But my computer do nightly backup to a raid 10 server, which in turn is 24.7 backed up to cloud

[LukaP]

Evening folks,

 

     Ebuyer was selling 120GB Kingston HyperX 3K SSDs at £58 each and with my OCZ Agility 3 Refurb

no longer under warranty and OCZ going bust I decided to go for 2 of these little beauties.

 

Honestly though, how stable is Raid 0? From your experiences how often is there a corruption of Data?

I plan on running them as an OS drive through my Motherboards (ASRock z77 e-itx) Bios. And I shall be

most likely performing backups once a week onto my 1TB SSHD (With 500GB set aside for backups).

Is this often enough do you think?

 

All crucial work data etc will be stored on the SSHD as opposed to on the Raid array, which will be mostly

OS, general applications and some games.

 

 

 

 

 

ps. If any Brits are interested in purchasing some they're now at £65 still pretty cheap

http://www.ebuyer.com/363436-kingston-120gb-hyperx-3k-2-5inch-ssd-sh103s3-120g

its not common for it to fail (about as common as a drive faliure) but it does mean losing all the data on them if a drive fails

[Trip]

its not common for it to fail (about as common as a drive faliure) but it does mean losing all the data on them if a drive fails

Ahh right, well I've only ever had problems with SSDs when I've messed around them or tried to update the firmware, human error more than anything. So a weekly backup should be fine if I'm just keeping OS and Games on there?

 

Cheers for the help!

[LukaP]

Ahh right, well I've only ever had problems with SSDs when I've messed around them or tried to update the firmware, human error more than anything. So a weekly backup should be fine if I'm just keeping OS and Games on there?

 

Cheers for the help!

yeah, or even a biweekly  

[Altecice]

Only thing worth noting with a RAID0 setup is. If you suddenly shut down the pc or loose power there is a small risk that data may be lost or files corrupted.

 

Id suggest sticking to a 64/128kb stripe size as this is the sweetspot.

[wpirobotbuilder]

As long as you don't mind the hassle of restoring your system, RAID 0 is okay. You won't get much tangible benefit from it, though. I recommend RAID 1 instead to prevent downtime, unless you need the storage space.

[Trip]

As long as you don't mind the hassle of restoring your system, RAID 0 is okay. You won't get much tangible benefit from it, though. I recommend RAID 1 instead to prevent downtime, unless you need the storage space.

 

I was looking at benchmarks for Kingston HyperX 3Ks in raid 0 and apparently it doubles the performance in pretty much every field. Either way I would like the extra storage space, I'm looking forward to running games off of an SSD.

Ultimately though, I probably don't really need it, I do a little bit of video editing, and some photoshop work but not enough for me to say justify buying an i7 or along them lines.

 

I'll test it and see how it goes, really looking forward to it tbh. Always heard good things. And If I'm honest the amount of system restores I've had to do this year alone is pretty ridiculous. Nvidia graphics drivers do not appear to be my 

friend on the best of days.

 

Thank you for the advice mind, if I find I have stability issues I may try RAID 1 or just revert simply to having 2 separate drives, as I'm sure the Kingston will be a hell of a lot more reliable and stable than my current refurbed OCZ drive.