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RAID 0 can be a nightmare to recover, which is why RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID 10 exist

 

You don't really recover RAID0 at all. You just create the array anew (by replacing defective hardware if needed) and then restore the backup you've (hopefully) made. Not much more work than with any single drive.

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You don't really recover RAID0 at all. You just create the array anew (by replacing defective hardware if needed) and then restore the backup you've (hopefully) made. Not much more work than with any single drive.

You can recover a RAID 0 drive if you absolutely have to but it requires specialist tools so it can be expensive, but yes backups are always the way to go

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I'd suggest a Samsung 850 Pro without even looking at any other drives.  Do enough research and you'll find that the 850 Pro comes out on top of SSD benchmarks everytime - it's fast. 

 

I would drop the idea of RAID 0 immediately if the work you have on your drives are important, if one drive fails your data is toast.  That being said, the 850 Pro comes with a guarantee to back its quality and it's rated as a high performance, high-use SSD... you can't go wrong.

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You can recover a RAID 0 drive if you absolutely have to but it requires specialist tools so it can be expensive, but yes backups are always the way to go

 

Well, that depends on what made the array fail, and how much data of the failed disk can be recovered.

 

But if we assume that one of two drives (just one possible scenario, I know) in a RAID0 array is just completely and utterly dead (like totally gone, with no chance of recovering any data from it at all), the RAID is lost as well, as even experts with specialist tools could do no more than guessing what the missing 50% of your data might have been, but would have nowhere to really recover it from. That's why I said, RAID 0 as of itself cannot really be recovered - only the individual drives might... and after that the array might. IMHO more of a theoretical issue than anything likely to happen in the real world (unless of course, people out there really save important data onto RAID0 without backup...)

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Well, that depends on what made the array fail, and how much data of the failed disk can be recovered.

 

But if we assume that one of two drives (just one possible scenario, I know) in a RAID0 array is just completely and utterly dead (like totally gone, with no chance of recovering any data from it at all), the RAID is lost as well, as even experts with specialist tools could do no more than guessing what the missing 50% of your data might have been, but would have nowhere to really recover it from. That's why I said, RAID 0 as of itself cannot really be recovered - only the individual drives might... and after that the array might. IMHO more of a theoretical issue than anything likely to happen in the real world (unless of course, people out there really save important data onto RAID0 without backup...)

Well yes if both drives go in RAID 0 then data recovery is more or less impossible, with one failed drive recovery is possible, but rebuilding the array from latest backup is preferable

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The information stream is back on (my thanks).

 

Thoughts about 4x Samsung 850 Pro SSDs in RAID10?  This should give me a speed boost and also redundancy. 

 

I love the reliability of the 850's . . .  From everything I have read/researched, they aren't likely to be high on the list of probable failure modes.  The SSD array would be for boot and programs (and games).  I can always reinstall those if necessary.  How concerned should I be about possible failures?  I have zero direct experience with SSDs so I am going on research and input from this forum.  Is a pair of 850's in RAID0 (for speed) enough or do I get paranoid and go for 4x 850's in RAID10?

 

 

I have a pair of WD Caviar Blacks 4TB that I will use for data/backups that I will run in RAID1.  That should give me a healthy safety net.

 

Also, how good is the ASUS X99 Deluxe for RAID?  Do I need to add a RAID card or will what I get from the mobo be good enough for what I have planned?

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Instead of going down the Single Extreme i7 have you thought of going for maybe a dual xeon system? Just food for thought my friend.

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Dual Xeon just doesn't make the cut if I price by $/GFLOPS.  Only the lower end Xeons are a better cost per performance option than the 5960X, but then I end up with lower computational horsepower.

 

Of  course the dual Xeon route would let me get to a lot higher GFLOPS capability, but then I am spending a few $k just for the Xeons.   One day . . .

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Please give me a little more credit for being concerned about more than boot time.  My current lap top takes way too much time.  It was a fantastic computer 4 years ago, but . . .

Just get any decent modern ssd for your laptop--problem solved.

Thoughts about 4x Samsung 850 Pro SSDs in RAID10?  This should give me a speed boost and also redundancy. 

Also, how good is the ASUS X99 Deluxe for RAID?  Do I need to add a RAID card or will what I get from the mobo be good enough for what I have planned?

A raid card is the best way to go if you have the money to spare. That being said, raid isn't worth it if what you're concerned with is boot time due to the extra time the raid controller adds. 

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any SSD modern SSD would do.

 

Though make sure your system is running UEFI instead of Legacy BIOS.

 

Also enable FASTBOOT or ULTRAFAST boot in UEFI.

 

Make sure to also enable Dynamic Storage Acceleration in UEFI and under Intel RST select High Performance gear.

 

You can further enhance the boot time speed by disabling any unnecessarily stuff in Task Scheduler.

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Just get any decent modern ssd for your laptop--problem solved

Adding new hardware to a 4 year old laptop isn't the way I really want to go

 

 

A raid card is the way to go if you the have money to spare. That being said, raid isn't worth it if what you're concerned with is boot time due to the extra time the controller adds

That was a big part about asking about using the mobo raid capabilities.  The bios has to load anyways . . .

 

Room to spare for another card may be hard to come by.  I'm including 2 GALAX GTX 980 HOFs.  They are 2.5 slot cards . . .

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