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bigpete82
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sorry if this has been ask but i was wondering and heard that if you raid ssd's it can be more dangerous then raiding hdd. and what raid will be the best for ssd's. thank you

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RAIDing anything comes with benefits as well as pitfalls (if we are talking about RAID0). I personally run two SSD's in RAID0 for increased speed and the ease of having only one device show in Windows.

 

For speed you want RAID0

for backup you want RAID1

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you shouldn't bother with raid

it can go wrong at many more places than just a regular drive

 

if you really need 1GBps+ speeds then buy an NVME SSD

 

but I highly doubt you need those speeds anyway unless youre a professional content creator, so a single SSD is more than enough for you

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you shouldn't bother with raid

it can go wrong at many more places than just a regular drive

 

if you really need 1GBps+ speeds then buy an NVME SSD

 

but I highly doubt you need those speeds anyway unless youre a professional content creator, so a single SSD is more than enough for you

 

I want to raid two 950's. Lol Just for the lolz.

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I want to raid two 950's. Lol Just for the lolz.

more like "waste of money" than "lolz"

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more like "waste of money" than "lolz"

 

It's not a waste if you have fun doing it.

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It's not a waste if you have fun doing it.

doing what...

running a benchmark and seeing a bigger number?

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doing what...

running a benchmark and seeing a bigger number?

 

What are you so salty about?

You ever heard of a second computer? 

Raid them once to see what kind of speeds you get, chuckle a bit, turn the raid off and use them as two separate drives or put it in another system.

Your life must be pretty dull if you don't like experimenting with anything at all.

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What are you so salty about?

You ever heard of a second computer? 

Raid them once to see what kind of speeds you get, chuckle a bit, turn the raid off and use them as two separate drives or put it in another system.

Your life must be pretty dull if you don't like experimenting with anything at all.

 

oh wow I had no idea that text had a taste...

did you lick your screen to taste that salt? lol

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oh wow I had no idea that text had a taste...

did you lick your screen to taste that salt? lol

 

Yeah, sadly it was my work monitor, so I got a bit more than salt...

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Hey there bigpete82,
 
Any potential difference between the risks is in the data recovery possibilities. It is nearly impossible to retrieve data from a failed SSD due to the nature of storing the data on them (on electrical charges on NAND cells rather than written on magnetic platters on HDDs) compared to the rather easy data recovery from HDDs. 
Everything else should be the same in terms of risks of data loss, drive dropouts and potential dangers. :)
The RAID type depends on many things including what you are looking for( speed, redundancy, combination of both), what type of usage and how many SSDs in the single RAID array. As @Altecice suggested the two simple types of RAID for two SSDs are RAID1 Mirroring for redundancy (in case ne drive fails) and RAID0 Striping for speed increase (in order to increase your sequential speeds). :)
 
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