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Help choosing SSD - Raid 0 or not

Petter005
By Petter005
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Hello all 

i want to get a new SSD to my system and i found the Samsung 850 EVO 250GB at $77.99 and the SanDisk Internal SSD 120GB at $43.99 (wich is $87.98 for 2 of them)

so i want to ask if i should get the single 250gb or its better option to get twi 120GB and make a RAID 0 of them wich costs only $10 more 

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Hello all 

i want to get a new SSD to my system and i found the Samsung 850 EVO 250GB at $77.99 and the SanDisk Internal SSD 120GB at $43.99 (wich is $87.98 for 2 of them)

so i want to ask if i should get the single 250gb or its better option to get twi 120GB and make a RAID 0 of them wich costs only $10 more 

 

Just get the single SSD IMO, honestly a single SSD is fast enough for most people, means more room for future expansion, and less chance of failure

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Hello all 

i want to get a new SSD to my system and i found the Samsung 850 EVO 250GB at $77.99 and the SanDisk Internal SSD 120GB at $43.99 (wich is $87.98 for 2 of them)

so i want to ask if i should get the single 250gb or its better option to get twi 120GB and make a RAID 0 of them wich costs only $10 more 

1 ssd is fast enough, is there a reason why your doing raid0? if you really want to then go with the two sandisks. Just keep in mind raid 0 will reduce the ssds life

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Just get the EVO. The speed is already awesome compared to an HDD, let alone a WD Green. A RAID 0 array is really even faster but you wouldn't be able to tell the difference without first hand experience from SSDs. And you do not want to skimp on quality and reliability when you're building a RAID 0 array.

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RAID o all the way look up the performance boosts its amazing, will never go back to vanilla single SSD.

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I'd only suggest if you are going for RAID 0 to just remember a small error can cause full data loss - I'd hope you have a backup!

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Just save up for a 950 pro, no need for RAID 0 with one of those...

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Just to be sure, you're just using the RAIDed drives for the OS and not storage right?

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