Add 3rd SSD raid 0 ?

[insann]

Hi,

 

I've 2x SSD samsung 850 250gb in Raid 0 mode ?

 

I'm planing to add another SSD to be 3 ?

 

Will I get a real extra performance ?

 

I watched a video mentioned that 4 SSD in raid 0 mode will not give you thats much of noticeable performance ?

 

So What about 3 ? 

[DarkEnergy]

What ever your little heart desires. 

[Oshino Shinobu]

No, you'll see basically nothing, at least, nothing in real world use cases. 

 

Also, you'll have to format the existing array, just so you're aware.

[xboxonthego3]

Go for it. I went from 1 SSD to 2. Then to 4. I really just wanted more space because I had 250GB SDDs. Then kept buying more and more. lol. My thought was why not get more performance if I have the ability to. No matter how little performance increase I would see. It's probably best to start with a clean install. I don't think there is a reason not to.

[TriviaBeast]

3 will basically hit the bandwidth limit and 4 will be almost no upgrade from 3 speed wise. Keep in mind adding another ssd will increase the chance of a failure.

I would look into an Intel 750 pci-e card if you have the money. Speeds are unreal.

[insann]

Thanks for all,

 

I trust my eyes more than benchmark numbers of how my PC act.

I'm interested in Intel 750.

Searching videos of Intel 750.

 

Thank you again.

[watts300]

I'm cloning my son's RAID 0 back to a single 1TB as I type this.

I've got some sort of error (shown in POST) on one of the two 512's.  It doesn't quite make sense because the computer boots.  But there are intermittent freezing issues.

 

I don't really want to deal with it any more, and I know my kid doesn't care. 

 

Benchmarks are pretty amazing with RAID 0, but... meh. For internet and video games, that sort of speed isn't necessary. If he were capturing video and editing, it would be more valuable. 

[Captain_WD]

~snip~

 

Hey there insann,

 

RAID0 does offer increased speed and performance and with each added drive that speed increase goes up. It's a different manner if you use any applications that will actually benefit and show any real world results from that increase. If you already have 5-6 second boot time or a 10 second loading screen on a game, decreasing it with one or two more won't make such a big difference. The responsiveness of the system would remain pretty much the same.

On the other hand, the risk for your data would increase significantly so I would say it's not really worth it for everyday usage.

 

Captain_WD.

[insann]

 

Hey there insann,

 

RAID0 does offer increased speed and performance and with each added drive that speed increase goes up. It's a different manner if you use any applications that will actually benefit and show any real world results from that increase. If you already have 5-6 second boot time or a 10 second loading screen on a game, decreasing it with one or two more won't make such a big difference. The responsiveness of the system would remain pretty much the same.

On the other hand, the risk for your data would increase significantly so I would say it's not really worth it for everyday usage.

 

Captain_WD.

 

 

 

I watched this video and I do not know if it's true or not but if this is how intel 750 SSD boot then it doesn't worth.

 

with 2x SSD rida0. My PC boot time better than this.

 

How ever thanks a lot for reply

[TriviaBeast]

I watched this video and I do not know if it's true or not but if this is how intel 750 SSD boot then it doesn't worth.

with 2x SSD rida0. My PC boot time better than this.

How ever thanks a lot for reply

It's not designed to be a boot drive, rather an ultra, ultra fast storage drive. Besides, a single ssd boot time is already plenty fast unless you reboot competitively, haha.

[Captain_WD]

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Booting times depend on all the hardware of the computer, not only on the storage. I doubt you will see any improvement in booting times if you add another SSD to your RAID0 array. As a matter of fact, a single 500GB SSD should give you even faster boot times compared to your current 2x250GB RAID0 setup since the system needs to first initialize the RAID and then commence with the booting sequence. If you are going after faster boot times, I would simply get a single larger SSD, migrate the OS on it and leave the RAID0 array for everything else.

 

Captain_WD.