RAID 0 opinions/help

[Technologycal]

In the new build i will be making, it will be 100% SSD storage, with a definite 120gb ssd for OS and applications.

 

Now, should i  get 2 500gb ssds (samsung evo) or get 4 240gb ssds (hyperx).

 

Both options will be running in a RAID 0, so my question is which to go with and how significant would the speed differences be.

System is going to be used for gaming, and pretty much gaming only.

 

(pricing is about $560aud for dual 500gb option, or about $620aud for quad 240gb option)

[Enderman]

1) why are you doing raid 0 for gaming, it will give you no improvement

 

2) are you sure you want to increase your risk of losing all your data for no reason?

 

3) if you have enough money to afford all those SSDs, and you really want to have stupidly fast speed that is useless for gaming, then buy an NVME SSD like the 950 pro or intel 750

[Guest]

the 4 Kingston Drives for RAID10.

[MrWazoo]

So the 4 240 should be faster.

[MrWazoo]

I agree i'd go raid 10. 

[Technologycal]

1) why are you doing raid 0 for gaming, it will give you no improvement

 

2) are you sure you want to increase your risk of losing all your data for no reason?

 

3) if you have enough money to afford all those SSDs, and you really want to have stupidly fast speed that is useless for gaming, then buy an NVME SSD like the 950 pro or intel 750

 

Wouldn't there prove to be much of a difference for example if i run fallout 4 completely modded to have 4k/8k textures, wouldn't that drastically improve load times?

 

Also, NVME drives are extremely stupidly priced especially in australia. Intel 750 400gb is $600, so almost same price as the quad ssd option

[Enderman]

Wouldn't there prove to be much of a difference for example if i run fallout 4 completely modded to have 4k/8k textures, wouldn't that drastically improve load times?

nope

a regular SATA SSD is already fast enough for that

 

speeds higher than that are beneficial to heavy computing, 3d rendering, content creating, stuff like that

 

if you have the money to go overkill, do not do raid 0

not only is software raid very unreliable, making it very likely to have your array fail and lose everything, but you also double the possibility of losing all your data by drive failure

 

NVMe is a far better option because

1) you get even faster speeds

2) you dont have to deal with software raid (which is crap on consumer motherboards) or you dont need to buy a $500 enterprise raid card

3) it is much more reliable since its only one drive

4) it is smaller

[Technologycal]

nope

a regular SATA SSD is already fast enough for that

 

speeds higher than that are beneficial to heavy computing, 3d rendering, content creating, stuff like that

 

if you have the money to go overkill, do not do raid 0

not only is software raid very unreliable, making it very likely to have your array fail and lose everything, but you also double the possibility of losing all your data by drive failure

 

NVMe is a far better option because

1) you get even faster speeds

2) you dont have to deal with software raid (which is crap on consumer motherboards) or you dont need to buy a $500 enterprise raid card

3) it is much more reliable since its only one drive

4) it is smaller

 

Motherboard i'm getting is Asus X99 Deluxe, fairly sure that can support RAID through BIOS setup. (not too educated in RAIDs etc, but fairly certain its different to software RAID)

and 2nd, size isn't an issue (case has 8 total bays for SSDs)

[paradigm249]

its easier to buy a nvme drive or a m.2 drive. you get no issues with raid

[MrWazoo]

size isn't an issue

Thats what she said.

[Technologycal]

Thats what she said.

 

Lol.

[Enderman]

Motherboard i'm getting is Asus X99 Deluxe, fairly sure that can support RAID through BIOS setup. (not too educated in RAIDs etc, but fairly certain its different to software RAID)

and 2nd, size isn't an issue (case has 8 total bays for SSDs)

software raid = using the motherboard for raid

 

hardware raid = using a proper raid card

 

software raid on consumer motherboards is horrible

i see plenty of people coming to LTT for help because their PC stops booting and its because their raid array, which was done by software raid, failed

that means everything is lost and you need to restart from a clean windows installation

 

unless you want to spend $500+ on a proper raid card, dont do software raid

 

just get a single NVMe SSD

its faster, safer, and also far easier to set up

[Technologycal]

software raid = using the motherboard for raid

 

hardware raid = using a proper raid card

 

software raid on consumer motherboards is horrible

i see plenty of people coming to LTT for help because their PC stops booting and its because their raid array, which was done by software raid, failed

that means everything is lost and you need to restart from a clean windows installation

 

unless you want to spend $500+ on a proper raid card, dont do software raid

 

just get a single NVMe SSD

its faster, safer, and also far easier to set up

 

So would just getting the two 500gb ssds (without the 120gb os/app ssd) in no raids be a better option?

[Enderman]

So would just getting the two 500gb ssds (without the 120gb os/app ssd) in no raids be a better option?

that's what I would do, yes

 

you can use one 500GB drive for all your games, programs, OS etc... and the other drive for stuf like documents, videos, pictures, etc...

[Technologycal]

that's what I would do, yes

 

you can use one 500GB drive for all your games, programs, OS etc... and the other drive for stuf like documents, videos, pictures, etc...

 

Alright thanks for the help then, got my solution and getting ready to build the dream pc soon

[Enderman]

Alright thanks for the help then, got my solution and getting ready to build the dream pc soon

good luck