two ssd better then one?

[dkllw]

I just recently had a hardrive crash dead. So i was looking at going with the two Intel 730 240gb there a intel video that shows increaable performance when installing two of theirs ssd. But im also looking at the samsung 840 pro 256gb.

 

is there any better performance increase in installing two samsung 840 pro over the intel 730? 

 

i have saw where some others installed two ssd and they performance was lower then just one being installing, (both they were not using a samsung 840 pro or intel 730 )?

 

 My computer is a Gateway fx6860-ur10p http://www.theverge.com/products/fx6860-ur10p/5556 

 

Please any inputs would help thanks

Spec

 

U brand PROCESSOR (BASE) CP Intel CPU family Ivy Bridge Base CPU model Core i7-3770 Cores 4 Clockspeed 3.4 GHz Turbo clockspeed 3.9 GHz GPU (BASE) Graphics type Discrete Base discrete GPU brand AMD Base discrete GPU model Radeon HD 7770 Dedicated VRAM size 2 GB MEMORY Base RAM size 12 GB RAM type DDR3 Base RAM speed 1333 MHz Slots 4 STORAGE Options HDD (7200RPM) Base storage type HDD (7200RPM) Base storage capacity 2 TB Card reader Yes Card reader support Other, SD OPTICAL DRIVE Drive(s) 1 Optical drive Yes Drive type Tray-loading Optical disc support DVD Super Multi PORTS USB 10 Ethernet 1 Ethernet type 10/100/1000 (Gigabit) VGA 1 HDMI 1 3.5mm headphone 1 3.5mm line-in / microphone 1 CONNECTIVITY Wi-Fi Yes Wi-Fi options 802.11n, 802.11g, 802.11b POWER PSU wattage 750 W

 

[79wjd]

Unless you're writing terabytes of data daily, go with a Crucial MX100 or Samsung 840 Evo. 

 

What are the specs of your computer and what are you doing with it? (your link is broken) 

 

If youre just gaming/internet/othert stuff like that than two SSDs won't give you any noticeable difference over 1 ssd. (yes, two will be a decent bit faster, but in most daily applications, things happen fast enough on a single ssd that you can't physically move around the screen fast enough to make any difference).

[KingDaddyDaniel]

If the Intel 730 is in your budget, then get those. Reliability and performance is unmatched in the consumer-grade SSD market.

The only performance gain in having two SSDs would be be in RAID 0, which isn't needed unless you're doing a lot of 8K video rendering.

Oh, and welcome to the forum! First time poster I see

[Razor512]

For overall performance, 2 SATA SSD's will offer more performance, depending on the speed of the drives, it will allow you to hit about 1GB/s of readsand writes. The only issue is that when you do RAID 0 SSD's, you double your chance of failure, and losing all of the data.

 

If you need the best performing single SSD, then the samsung 850 pro will max out a single SATA connection (the SATA connection basically becomes the bottleneck).

[Pofi]

I'd recommend a single. RAID 0 setup is just... idk.. too risky - if one drive fails - both are gone basically. It's not a smart choice in my opinion. I'd go with samsung one. Samsung has a good reputation in terms of SSDs. I see no reason to use a double setup to increase the already insane read/write speeds just to double the chance of all data loss. A full HD movie ~20gb copies within a minute or two anyways.... and an SSD is not a place to store big files anyways, there's really no need to go beyond the half a GB per second that one SSD already provides.