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RAID 0 on the SSD = great. But why do you want RAID 10 for the HHD's? Personally I would do RAID 5, if you  don't need RAID 0 performance out of the harddrives, and it gives you a single drive failure redundancy as well as 3 TB usable space.

 

RAID 5 is still faster than no raid at all, but it isn't as fast as RAID 10 would be, depends what you expect to keep on your harddrives.

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I am going to be building a PC in about 5 months, and I have everything set up. All I need to do now is to think about what raid I am going to be using. I have 2 Samsung 840 Pro 256 GBs and 4 Wd Caviar Black 1 TB. My original plan was to RAID 0 and ssd and RAID 10 the hdd. Is this a good setup? I will be mostly photoshopping and gaming btw. Thanks in advance.

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RAID 0 on the SSD = great. But why do you want RAID 10 for the HHD's? Personally I would do RAID 5, if you  don't need RAID 0 performance out of the harddrives, and it gives you a single drive failure redundancy as well as 3 TB usable space.

 

RAID 5 is still faster than no raid at all, but it isn't as fast as RAID 10 would be, depends what you expect to keep on your harddrives.

Rig: i7 13700k +Contact Frame - - Asus Z790-P Wifi - - RTX 4080 - - 4x16GB 6000MHz - - Samsung 990 Pro 2TB NVMe Boot + Main Programs - - Crucial P3 2TB NVMe for photo work - - Corsair RM850x - - Sound BlasterX EA-5 - - Corsair XC8 JTC Edition - - Corsair GPU Full Cover GPU Block - - PTM 7950 - - XT45 X-Flow 420 + UT60 280 rads externally mounted - - EK XRES RGB PWM - - Fractal Define S2 - - DellAlienware AW3423DWF 34" -- Logitech Pro X Superlight - - Logitech G710+ - - LTT Northern Lights Deskpad

 

Headphones/amp/dac: Schiit Bifrost Multibit - -  Schiit Lyr 3 - - Fostex TR-X00 - - Sennheiser HD 6xx

 

Homelab/Media Server: Proxmox VE host - - 512 NVMe Samsung 980 RAID Z1 for VM's/Proxmox boot - - Xeon e5 2660 V4- - Supermicro X10SRF-i - - 128 GB ECC 2133 - - 10x8TB WD Red RAID Z2 - - 2x 800 GB SAS SSD’s (1 SLOG, 1 L2Arc) - - 45 HomeLab HL15 15 Drive 4U - - Corsair RM650i - - LSI 9305-16i HBA - - TreuNAS + many other VM’s

 

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RAID 0 on the SSD = great. But why do you want RAID 10 for the HHD's? Personally I would do RAID 5, if you  don't need RAID 0 performance out of the harddrives, and it gives you a single drive failure redundancy as well as 3 TB usable space.

 

RAID 5 is still faster than no raid at all, but it isn't as fast as RAID 10 would be, depends what you expect to keep on your harddrives.

Does RAID 0 give any major performance benefits that you can notice in real world usage? I might go with RAID 5 for my hdd...

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Does RAID 0 give any major performance benefits that you can notice in real world usage? I might go with RAID 5 for my hdd...

RAID 0 for which? The SSd's?

Rig: i7 13700k +Contact Frame - - Asus Z790-P Wifi - - RTX 4080 - - 4x16GB 6000MHz - - Samsung 990 Pro 2TB NVMe Boot + Main Programs - - Crucial P3 2TB NVMe for photo work - - Corsair RM850x - - Sound BlasterX EA-5 - - Corsair XC8 JTC Edition - - Corsair GPU Full Cover GPU Block - - PTM 7950 - - XT45 X-Flow 420 + UT60 280 rads externally mounted - - EK XRES RGB PWM - - Fractal Define S2 - - DellAlienware AW3423DWF 34" -- Logitech Pro X Superlight - - Logitech G710+ - - LTT Northern Lights Deskpad

 

Headphones/amp/dac: Schiit Bifrost Multibit - -  Schiit Lyr 3 - - Fostex TR-X00 - - Sennheiser HD 6xx

 

Homelab/Media Server: Proxmox VE host - - 512 NVMe Samsung 980 RAID Z1 for VM's/Proxmox boot - - Xeon e5 2660 V4- - Supermicro X10SRF-i - - 128 GB ECC 2133 - - 10x8TB WD Red RAID Z2 - - 2x 800 GB SAS SSD’s (1 SLOG, 1 L2Arc) - - 45 HomeLab HL15 15 Drive 4U - - Corsair RM650i - - LSI 9305-16i HBA - - TreuNAS + many other VM’s

 

Unifi UDM Pro in front of full unifi network infrastructure

 

iPhone 17 Pro - - MacBook Air M3

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RAID 0 for which? The SSd's?

yeah...

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I mean, not really. If you want to have a 512 GB SSd array as your main OS and program install location it will be the easiest way, but performance wise it doesn't make a heck of a difference from personal experience. My dads PC has RAID 0 840's, and my PC has a single Vertex 4 at SATA 2 speeds, it doesn't really feel much difference real world to be honest. 

Rig: i7 13700k +Contact Frame - - Asus Z790-P Wifi - - RTX 4080 - - 4x16GB 6000MHz - - Samsung 990 Pro 2TB NVMe Boot + Main Programs - - Crucial P3 2TB NVMe for photo work - - Corsair RM850x - - Sound BlasterX EA-5 - - Corsair XC8 JTC Edition - - Corsair GPU Full Cover GPU Block - - PTM 7950 - - XT45 X-Flow 420 + UT60 280 rads externally mounted - - EK XRES RGB PWM - - Fractal Define S2 - - DellAlienware AW3423DWF 34" -- Logitech Pro X Superlight - - Logitech G710+ - - LTT Northern Lights Deskpad

 

Headphones/amp/dac: Schiit Bifrost Multibit - -  Schiit Lyr 3 - - Fostex TR-X00 - - Sennheiser HD 6xx

 

Homelab/Media Server: Proxmox VE host - - 512 NVMe Samsung 980 RAID Z1 for VM's/Proxmox boot - - Xeon e5 2660 V4- - Supermicro X10SRF-i - - 128 GB ECC 2133 - - 10x8TB WD Red RAID Z2 - - 2x 800 GB SAS SSD’s (1 SLOG, 1 L2Arc) - - 45 HomeLab HL15 15 Drive 4U - - Corsair RM650i - - LSI 9305-16i HBA - - TreuNAS + many other VM’s

 

Unifi UDM Pro in front of full unifi network infrastructure

 

iPhone 17 Pro - - MacBook Air M3

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I might go with a single 512 GB SSD then. I don't want to lose all my files if one ssd fails.

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Not a bad idea. Also, if you plan on using windows 7, a single SSD might be better because it will pass TRIM to the SSD, where RAID 0 on windows 7 doesn't get TRIM support as far as I know (last I looked into it was early Ivy bridge when I built my Dads PC, at the time TRIM over RAID 0 wasn't possible on windows 7, although it is on win 8). Although, RAID 0 SSD would be faster, I don't think you would ever tell a real world difference. Games might load a tad faster, apps might open a lil faster, but really I don't think it is a huge deal. Maybe someone who has more experience will chime in and prove me wrong. But thats my two cents :)

Rig: i7 13700k +Contact Frame - - Asus Z790-P Wifi - - RTX 4080 - - 4x16GB 6000MHz - - Samsung 990 Pro 2TB NVMe Boot + Main Programs - - Crucial P3 2TB NVMe for photo work - - Corsair RM850x - - Sound BlasterX EA-5 - - Corsair XC8 JTC Edition - - Corsair GPU Full Cover GPU Block - - PTM 7950 - - XT45 X-Flow 420 + UT60 280 rads externally mounted - - EK XRES RGB PWM - - Fractal Define S2 - - DellAlienware AW3423DWF 34" -- Logitech Pro X Superlight - - Logitech G710+ - - LTT Northern Lights Deskpad

 

Headphones/amp/dac: Schiit Bifrost Multibit - -  Schiit Lyr 3 - - Fostex TR-X00 - - Sennheiser HD 6xx

 

Homelab/Media Server: Proxmox VE host - - 512 NVMe Samsung 980 RAID Z1 for VM's/Proxmox boot - - Xeon e5 2660 V4- - Supermicro X10SRF-i - - 128 GB ECC 2133 - - 10x8TB WD Red RAID Z2 - - 2x 800 GB SAS SSD’s (1 SLOG, 1 L2Arc) - - 45 HomeLab HL15 15 Drive 4U - - Corsair RM650i - - LSI 9305-16i HBA - - TreuNAS + many other VM’s

 

Unifi UDM Pro in front of full unifi network infrastructure

 

iPhone 17 Pro - - MacBook Air M3

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