Raid 0 Questions

[King_Gamma]

Hey guys I am thinking about doing a Raid 0 configuration with a new build. I have some questions about Raid 0.

 

I know it increases performance speed wise. But all I see are benchmarks not real use scenarios. So if I put two SSDs in raid 0 will I actually see a noticeable speed increase from one SSD doing regular tasks, like multitasking and gaming etc?

 

Also what SSD configuration would be good for Raid 0 that is not extremely expensive?

 

Thanks!

[Timopomer]

Hey guys I am thinking about doing a Raid 0 configuration with a new build. I have some questions about Raid 0.

 

I know it increases performance speed wise. But all I see are benchmarks not real use scenarios. So if I put two SSDs in raid 0 will I actually see a noticeable speed increase from one SSD doing regular tasks, like multitasking and gaming etc?

 

Also what SSD configuration would be good for Raid 0 that is not extremely expensive?

 

Thanks!

raid0 is not really nessecary for normal use in my opinion. but generally more smaller drives would give you access to more controllers at the same time right? not so sure about that subject

[Senzelian]

So if I put two SSDs in raid 0 will I actually see a noticeable speed increase from one SSD doing regular tasks, like multitasking and gaming etc?

Nope.

I used Raid0 myself and I think it was totally useless. I had to reinstall my OS a couple of times because of fuc*ed up stuff and at the end it wasn't worth it at all.

I would recommend you stick with some normal SSDs. Those are fast enough.

[rtpb5642]

U will notice a difference in gaming load times, and boot time. I like the samsung 840 evos, i have them in raid 0, but make sure to update them when u buy them

[SuperPug]

Theoretically doubles read / write speeds but you wont really notice it for the most part...

[Captain_WD]

Hey guys I am thinking about doing a Raid 0 configuration with a new build. I have some questions about Raid 0.

 

I know it increases performance speed wise. But all I see are benchmarks not real use scenarios. So if I put two SSDs in raid 0 will I actually see a noticeable speed increase from one SSD doing regular tasks, like multitasking and gaming etc?

 

Also what SSD configuration would be good for Raid 0 that is not extremely expensive?

 

Thanks!

 

 

Hey King_Gamma,

 

RAID0 basically splits the data in two and writes it simultaneously on the drives, increasing the read/write speed of the drives. Your whole performance would benefit from that simply because if has faster access to everything in the RAID. There are three problems with bootable RAID0 setup: 

- First, in most case, you actually get longer boot times as your system needs to first initialize the RAID and then start the booting process. 

- Second, games rely on storage only for their loading times and FPS and graphics will not be affected at all. Here's an example of the speed boost when using SSDs and HDDs: The jump in load times from HDD to SSD is like 10s to 1s. RAID 0 effectively (theoretically) halves the load time. So if you were to RAID 0 mechanical drives, it's 10s to 5s. You derive 5s of benefit. If you were to RAID 0 SSDs instead, its like 1s to 0.5s. You derive 0.5s of benefit. Just to demonstrate that striping SSDs is nowhere as beneficial compared to mechanical drives. 

- The third problem would be the chance of failure and data loss. due to its nature, drives in RAID0 cannot function without each other so in case any of them fails, you would lose all data on the whole array. The more drives in the array, the higher the risk of data loss.

 

Other than that, RAID0 provides great speeds for data transfers and is great if you work with large files.

 

Captain_WD.