ssd raid 0?

[zombiesays2suck]

I was looking and Newegg has a sale on a 120gb ssd. I already have one and the problem is that I honky have 10gb left. So should I pick up the second ssd and use raid 0?

[AlwaysFSX]

I don't see why not, more performance and more space.

[xXxYOLOxSWAGxXx_420BlazeIt]

I was looking and Newegg has a sale on a 120gb ssd. I already have one and the problem is that I honky have 10gb left. So should I pick up the second ssd and use raid 0?

I have 2 SSDs in RAID0 and its amazing.

 

So much faster than single drive. You DO see the extra speed in real world applications. Im using 2 120 Evos I got on sale, and 3 2TB drives in RAID0 for my local storage drives.

[Unhelpful]

I have 2 SSDs in RAID0 and its amazing.

 

So much faster than single drive. You DO see the extra speed in real world applications. Im using 2 120 Evos I got on sale, and 3 2TB drives in RAID0 for my local storage drives.

Have you had any issues? I'm just wondering how it has been so far. I'm consider dual 500gb evos to use as my only storage (im not the kind of person that can ever fill up 1tb)

[xXxYOLOxSWAGxXx_420BlazeIt]

Have you had any issues? I'm just wondering how it has been so far. I'm consider dual 500gb evos to use as my only storage (im not the kind of person that can ever fill up 1tb)

No i have had zero problems. I get around 1GB per second sequential read and writes.

 

I really dont understand why people say it isnt worth it.

 

It is 100% completely worth it, even more so when you consider how cheap the Samsung EVO SSDs are compared to PCI-E ones of the same capacity.

[Unhelpful]

No i have had zero problems. I get around 1GB per second sequential read and writes.

 

I really dont understand why people say it isnt worth it.

 

It is 100% completely worth it, even more so when you consider how cheap the Samsung EVO SSDs are compared to PCI-E ones of the same capacity.

People say it isnt worth it just because you add another point of failure. Doesn't matter too much to me since I do backups though so I will likely go for it.

[xXxYOLOxSWAGxXx_420BlazeIt]

People say it isnt worth it just because you add another point of failure. Doesn't matter too much to me since I do backups though so I will likely go for it.

They always say "if a single drive fails you lose all your data". Its the exact same if youre using a single drive.

 

I keep my OS and programs on my SSDs, and back up all of my files to Google Drive in encrypted volumes, and an disk image of Windows with all my programs and settings configured on my NAS. It would take me roughly 20 minutes to recover from my RAID failing.

[Unhelpful]

They always say "if a single drive fails you lose all your data". Its the exact same if youre using a single drive.

Yes. Exactly. Meaning that having to rely on two roughly doubles the chances.

 

Like I said it doesn't really matter as long as you are doing backups. And I plan on doing it. I do see the logic though.

[zombiesays2suck]

I don't plan on doing back ups. i will just be using the two ssd's for boot drives and game storage besides that i have a 2tb hdd. and if i set up the second ssd will i have to reformat the drive or no?

[Atlantisman]

I also run two ssds in raid 0 and have been for well over a year. I have had zero problems with them.

 

Edit: Also, you will need to reload when you add the second SSD, and it would best if both SSDs were the same, or at least the same speeds.

[zombiesays2suck]

By reload you mean format right? and if so if i back up could i back it up on a hdd then copy the files off of the hhd and transfer it to the ssd array? also could i re-install windows with the same product key or would i have to buy a new one (hopefully not)

[ddeuel]

Sure, I have two 120 GB ssds in raid 0 and they're great!