I don't know how to setup RAID, or which one is best for what I want on my PC. Pls help.

Melano · March 10, 2022

Hiya.

I have SSD's I'd like to put into raid. I have no idea how and google keeps talking about NVME's. I also want to know what the best option is.

Western Digital Blue 1TB 3D NAND x2

Samsung EVO 500GB x2

I was thinking the two WD Blue's and one Samnsung in raid for storage. Anything helps. :c

Eigenvektor · March 10, 2022

If you want to extend storage you'd need to go with RAID 0. RAID 0 has the disadvantage that it doesn't offer redundancy, like other RAID types do. In fact, if even a single drive dies, all of your data is gone. It also doesn't really do anything in terms of performance for SSDs, since they are plenty fast on their own. I'd just use them as separate drives.

This should help you, if you want to continue despite the increased risk of data loss:

https://www.techradar.com/how-to/how-to-combine-multiple-hard-drives-in-raid-0-using-windows-10s-storage-spaces-feature

(NVMe SSD and SATA SSD are both types of SSDs, which might explain why you keep finding info about NVMe)

(~edit: here's a calculator that tells you how much storage you get with each raid type. It says HDD at the top, but works the same for SSD: https://www.synology.com/en-global/support/RAID_calculator?hdds=500 GB|1 TB|1 TB)

Melano · March 13, 2022

On 3/9/2022 at 11:39 PM, Eigenvektor said:

If you want to extend storage you'd need to go with RAID 0. RAID 0 has the disadvantage that it doesn't offer redundancy, like other RAID types do. In fact, if even a single drive dies, all of your data is gone. It also doesn't really do anything in terms of performance for SSDs, since they are plenty fast on their own. I'd just use them as separate drives.

This should help you, if you want to continue despite the increased risk of data loss:

https://www.techradar.com/how-to/how-to-combine-multiple-hard-drives-in-raid-0-using-windows-10s-storage-spaces-feature

(NVMe SSD and SATA SSD are both types of SSDs, which might explain why you keep finding info about NVMe)

(~edit: here's a calculator that tells you how much storage you get with each raid type. It says HDD at the top, but works the same for SSD: https://www.synology.com/en-global/support/RAID_calculator?hdds=500 GB|1 TB|1 TB)