1 Big SSD vs. 2 Medium SSDs in RAID0?

[Commander Llama]

Putting together my new desktop soon, and I've been using RAID0 on my oooooooooold Vertex SSDs without issue for 4 years now.

 

My budget allows for one Samsung Pro Series 512GB SSD, but for around the same I could get x2 of the 256GB model and put them in RAID0.  Worth it?  Or is the one big SSD fast enough that I won't notice the difference?

[CoolBeans]

One big, if you have two you can have problems and less reliability. Also a single SSD is usually cheaper.

[Shd0w2]

You would notice a difference, but imo, its juast a waste for ssds.

[Rheinwasser]

one, not a big difference and easier to setup and manage.

[Enderman]

Get a single larger one and don't worry about raid.

[Commander Llama]

Cool.  That's what I figured.  With my old SSDs I notice a difference in RAID vs not, but these new ones are so dang fast.

 

Thanks all.

[Poledancerz]

So this is similar to a question that I asked in the past. 

Basically people said this: Yes, having two SSDs in RAID0 is much faster, but random writes will be slower. (What random means, I'm not sure.) 

Large files will be much faster to copy. 

The majority of people were leaning towards just getting one SSD, as having RAID0 will only be a real advantage if you are copying very large files very often.