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Raid 0 SSD Game Drive

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I am running out of storage space on my 840 Pro lately so I am trying to figure out what to do from now on. I want a new drive just to put all of my games on. Does buying 2 smaller drives and 0 raiding them provide any benefit? (Load times and etc) My boot drive is still going to be the 840 Pro and redundancy won't be an issue since I'll back them up to my HDD. Any ideas? PC specs below.

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I am running out of storage space on my 840 Pro lately so I am trying to figure out what to do from now on. I want a new drive just to put all of my games on. Does buying 2 smaller drives and 0 raiding them provide any benefit? (Load times and etc) My boot drive is still going to be the 840 Pro and redundancy won't be an issue since I'll back them up to my HDD. Any ideas? PC specs below.

 

Yes it makes the drive twice as fast.....

 

Depends what you want to spend, there are some less good SSDs that have more storage you could use for a gaming drive like the MX100 series

 

Honestly I only install things like battlefield on my SSD, most single player games work just fine on a normal mechanical drive

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Crucial has a new line of SSDs that are actually really cheap. It's called the Crucial MX100. For around 100-115usd depending on where you shop, you get a 256GB SSD with 550 Read and 300 Write. Since this is meant for games, the so-so write isn't going to be an issue. Grab two of these for raid 0 and you have a 512GB storage solution that's ~240usd and 1100 Read 600 Write.

 

Dunno what this translates in Euros, but it's worth looking into.

 

 

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