AMD Raid 0 and TRIM

[Bogo Mogo]

I'm looking for more information about AMD Raid 0 before I proceed with it.

Story - I have two old Intel 520 SSDs that are very healthy, but their size is starting to be a pain in the ass, one holds OS and essential software for me, the other is atm out of the system. I'm thinking about merging them into Raid 0 (because it cost me nothing other than a bit of time and they don't hold critical data). I found information that AMD does not handle TRIM very well, and it may impact drives in a bad way, can someone expand on that topic. Also, I'm thinking about using Clonezilla to clone one drive into Raid 0, but there is very little topic about it. Thanks.

 

I don't want to be a dickhead, but if your response is only 'buy new drive' don't hassle me.

[jaslion]

Windows software raid and avoid these basic hardware raid features on boards. They are easily messed up by little things often.

[Dedayog]

7 minutes ago, Bogo Mogo said:

I'm looking for more information about AMD Raid 0 before I proceed with it.

Story - I have two old Intel 520 SSDs that are very healthy, but their size is starting to be a pain in the ass, one holds OS and essential software for me, the other is atm out of the system. I'm thinking about merging them into Raid 0 (because it cost me nothing other than a bit of time and they don't hold critical data). I found information that AMD does not handle TRIM very well, and it may impact drives in a bad way, can someone expand on that topic. Also, I'm thinking about using Clonezilla to clone one drive into Raid 0, but there is very little topic about it. Thanks.

 

I don't want to be a dickhead, but if your response is only 'buy new drive' don't hassle me.

You can also simply do a combine drives in Windows too, without RAID.   

 

If they're SATA, RAID0 will provide a speed boost, roughly 25-30% in load times in heavily modded Ark for example.  My 9900K system uses the BIOS RAID for years and no issues.  7700X uses combine for 2 of the 1TB drives is all.

 

 

[OddOod]

Honestly, SSDs are dirt cheap right now, I'd recommend just grabbing a 2TB and being done with it. 

[NewMaxx]

TRIM can be passed in RAID depending on various things. I've only dealt with Intel on it, whereby you need to have the right ROM for the board's firmware RAID and a matching driver. Software is different but Storage Spaces should pass TRIM, which is different than doing it through Disk Management (use SS if possible) if you're striping. SS is portable (can move it between Windows systems) but you don't want to use software for an OS. Firmware RAID for OS has its own issues (moving the array requires a matching storage controller).

[LIGISTX]

As some others said, just use windows storage spaces and make them 1 single drive. 

My game library is set up like this, I have a 1TB drives, and 2 256’s all acting as 1 large drive. I wouldn’t do this for critical data, but games are pretty much throw away data since it’s all re-downloadable from steam/origin/blizzard etc 

[LIGISTX]

On 7/20/2023 at 7:49 AM, Bogo Mogo said:

Also, I'm thinking about using Clonezilla to clone one drive into Raid 0,

That isn’t a thing. You have to wipe both drives to initialize a RAID 0, since half of every piece of data is split into both drives.