SSD vs SSD raid 0

[DrZander]

I am deciding between a 250gb ssd Samsung Evo or two 128gb ssd Adata pro in raid 0. I am looking to get the best bang for my buck. 

I have watched Linus's Youtube video comparing the two but did not fully understand the results. The raid 0 configuration was much faster but the Samsung was still declared the better ssd for some reason. I will be using the memory for gaming and school work so if anyone could shed some light that'd be great. Also, I keep hearing that ssd's can lose your data or are not safe, how true is this?

[Rheinwasser]

get the 250gb evo. way easier to configure. + you get the benefit of more data security.

 

ssds are safe, of course they can break but that is quite unlikely.

[Sauron]

250 evo since you won't notice the difference in performance anyway.

 

SSDs will wipe themselves and become unusable after a few hundred petabytes have been written to it. In normal usage that's more than 15 years. Don't worry about it.

[manikyath]

well.. one thing to consider is reliability.

 

if you have a pool of 100 drives, and one is destined for early death.

 

one SSD: 1% chance you have the dud.

two SSDs: 2% chance you have the dud.

 

might not seem like a lot, but i'm sure you wouldnt like to lose your data, now consider you have twice the chance to lose your data when you have raid 0.

[TheCaptain53]

I am deciding between a 250gb ssd Samsung Evo or two 128gb ssd Adata pro in raid 0. I am looking to get the best bang for my buck. 

I have watched Linus's Youtube video comparing the two but did not fully understand the results. The raid 0 configuration was much faster but the Samsung was still declared the better ssd for some reason. I will be using the memory for gaming and school work so if anyone could shed some light that'd be great. Also, I keep hearing that ssd's can lose your data or are not safe, how true is this?

A Samsung 850 EVO 250GB would make more sense. If you have two SSDs in RAID 0 and one of them fails (assuming you haven't backed up your data), you will lose all data in that array. With a single drive, you only have one point of failure.

[Dimwitted]

Raid 0 is a kludge for slow drives. Ssd's are not slow. And even better, the larger the drive the faster it is. There's no advantage to Raiding.

[manikyath]

Raid 0 is a kludge for slow drives. Ssd's are not slow. And even better, the larger the drive the faster it is. There's no advantage to Raiding.

its not a kludge more so as a "i need more performance - but dont necessarily care about data loss"