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Hi, I have a mac pro and looking at getting an external thunderbolt drive.   Does it make since to buy an enclosure and put in two SSD in RAID 0 or would that be overkill?   Would it just make sense to bu an external with one SSD drive.   I know that the SSD drives are limited two 6 gb/s but I was thinkimg in RAID 0 it would speed them up to take advantage of the thunderbolt speed.   I could be wrong.   Thanks for any info.

 

David

Yes, RAID 0 would make it a fair amount faster. But keep in mind that you are making you chance for failure higher as if 1 drive dies, so does all the rest of your data. However, SSD's are extremely reliable and unless you are writing A LOT or are using SSD's with really bad controllers, you should be OK

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Hi, I have a mac pro and looking at getting an external thunderbolt drive.   Does it make since to buy an enclosure and put in two SSD in RAID 0 or would that be overkill?   Would it just make sense to bu an external with one SSD drive.   I know that the SSD drives are limited two 6 gb/s but I was thinkimg in RAID 0 it would speed them up to take advantage of the thunderbolt speed.   I could be wrong.   Thanks for any info.

 

David

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Hi, I have a mac pro and looking at getting an external thunderbolt drive.   Does it make since to buy an enclosure and put in two SSD in RAID 0 or would that be overkill?   Would it just make sense to bu an external with one SSD drive.   I know that the SSD drives are limited two 6 gb/s but I was thinkimg in RAID 0 it would speed them up to take advantage of the thunderbolt speed.   I could be wrong.   Thanks for any info.

 

David

Yes, RAID 0 would make it a fair amount faster. But keep in mind that you are making you chance for failure higher as if 1 drive dies, so does all the rest of your data. However, SSD's are extremely reliable and unless you are writing A LOT or are using SSD's with really bad controllers, you should be OK

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Hi, I have a mac pro and looking at getting an external thunderbolt drive.   Does it make since to buy an enclosure and put in two SSD in RAID 0 or would that be overkill?   Would it just make sense to bu an external with one SSD drive.   I know that the SSD drives are limited two 6 gb/s but I was thinkimg in RAID 0 it would speed them up to take advantage of the thunderbolt speed.   I could be wrong.   Thanks for any info.

 

David

 

 

Hey davidst95,
 
What are you looking to do with the drive?
 
I could suggest checking out WD My Passport Pro. It is an external thunderbolt drive with two drives and you have the freedom to choose the mode (RAID0, RAID1 or JBOD/JBOD Span). Here's a link with a bit more info: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=ZPMGJc
 
Feel free to as if you happen to have any questions :)
 
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