How common is raid 0?

[PCPartPickerPro9171787]

I use raid 0 on two crucial SSDs and it can give me up to 100% speed boost. With that kind of speed increase it would seem that more people would be doing it than their appears to be.  

[The Cool n00B]

It's not uncommon but the if one drive fails then you lose all of your data, and the chances of drive failure virtually double and therefore so does your chances of total data loss.

 

The safest option by far is RAID 6 but that requires 4 drives.

[daniellearmouth]

Problem is, not everyone is going to have any need for it.

 

Like me. I have no need for RAID.

[The Official Czex]

RAID ALL THE PCIE SSDS!

[PCPartPickerPro9171787]

EVERBODY NEEDS RAID

[Gikero]

I know one technically inclined person who uses it. I use RAID 1 & RAID 5 on a few systems, but no RAID 0. Considering getting a second SSD and testing it on my laptop. I have a secondary drive that houses non OS data and it is backed up on a reoccurring basis.

[Sunshine1868]

RAID 5 and 6 are slower options than RAID 10. 5 and 6 require a parity bit calculation that can slow down the read/write speeds, ESPECIALLY (and quite noticeably) if the array is built in software (as opposed to a hardware RAID controller). raid 10 requires 4 drives (like RAID 6) but is as fast as RAID 0 and allows for 1 drive to fail.

[Helly]

Ive been using raid-0 for over 10 years. I've only had a few problems and only recently 1 big enough to lose data. Never lost data before, and i blame my x99 board for it, because it does things differently somehow. Was pretty pissed when it happened...

[Captain_WD]

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Hey there

 

RAID0 does offer a good speed increase but it does not exactly double it. You would get more of a 85%ish speed increase on the sequential read/write speeds and little gain on the random read/write speeds. Striped arrays are great improvements for some types of usage while others gain little from this. It really depends on what you are doing with the array. For example, often boot times from a 2x250GB SSD RAID0 are actually longer compared to boot times from a single 500GB SSD or even a single 250GB SSD as the array needs to be initialized first. 

Moreover, RAID0 does not offer any redundancy whatsoever and the chance of losing data with this are significantly higher.

 

Captain_WD.

[dalekphalm]

I use raid 0 on two crucial SSDs and it can give me up to 100% speed boost. With that kind of speed increase it would seem that more people would be doing it than their appears to be.  

The thing of it is, in actual practical terms, the speed increase is not noticeable to the user unless they are doing a lot of large file transfers to another drive capable of achieving similar speeds.

 

Going from HDD to SSD - totally worth it. No question. Everything is better, faster, more responsive.

 

Going from SSD to SSD's in RAID0 - you won't notice much difference in your day to day activities.

 

Not to mention, it increases troubleshooting complexity if the RAID Array ever causes problems, and of course, the increased risk of data loss.

 

Most people don't bother with RAID0 because SSD's are already fast enough, so why bother?

[PCPartPickerPro9171787]

Is there anything else, I don't relay like how they breakdown the numbers for desktop rating. Also it will not take my SSDs in raid. 

[PCPartPickerPro9171787]

What about a tech review type website?

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Lol, I put this on the wrong post