Single or Raid SSD setup?

[FBPerformance]

Greetings,

 

I'am in the process of ordering my components for my new build, but keep going back and forth between a single 840 EVO (250GB) or a RAID1 of two 840 EVO (120GB). I would consider myself a power user and I do a BUNCH of photo editing/transferring, some video work, and some gaming. Would I be better off with the faster r/w of RAID or happy enough with a single SSD? TIA.

[CoolBeans]

Single, less problems and it is usually cheaper

[Createinator]

By RAID 1 do you mean mirroring as in copy of same data on 2 disks?
@FBPerformance

[FBPerformance]

By RAID 1 do you mean mirroring as in copy of same data on 2 disks?

@FBPerformance

Whoops, Sorry I meant RAID0, hope that makes more sense. Greater r/w's vs. reliability of one SSD

[Createinator]

Whoops, Sorry I meant RAID0, hope that makes more sense. Greater r/w's vs. reliability of one SSD

Not worth the trouble, photo editing and occasional video editing will not be enough workload to buy into an SSD RAID 0 setup. RAID 0 is not very reliable and unless you require speed at all costs while not considering data integrity, do not choose this option.

[FBPerformance]

Sounds good, single SSD it is then. Thanks for the advice.