Storage Upgrade

[Zygosaur]

Ok, I currently have a 1TB SSHD in my system and am looking to expand. I was thinking of acquiring two SSD's and run them in RAID 0 and backing them up to the SSHD. I just wanted some opinions if people think I'm not doing the right thing or if I should run the SSD's in raid 1. The plan is to keep the operating system on the SSHD but move my games to the SSD's to increase the gaming experience. The SSD's are Samsung 850 EVO's at 500GB each giving me 1TB more.

OS: Windows 10 64-bit

Motherboard: MSI Z87-GD65 Gaming Edition

CPU: Intel i5-4670K 3.40GHz

RAM: 16GB Kingston HyperX Beast

GPU: EVGA GTX GeForce 960 ssc

 

Thanks!

[Altecice]

I have been running two SSD's in RAID-0 for years now (without backups, only because it just holds windows)... never had an issue. But to be fair you wont see any real life speed improvement over just a single HDD, most of the reason I do it is to pool the storage space into a single location. (x2 128 = 256GB).

 

Edit: you will get loading time improvements in games, but no more FPS etc...

[Aspect11]

If I were you I would go for a high performance HDD around 4TB and then having one SSD as the boot drive.

[Zygosaur]

3 minutes ago, Altecice said:

I have been running two SSD's in RAID-0 for years now (without backups, only because it just holds windows)... never had an issue. But to be fair you wont see any real life speed improvement over just a single HDD, most of the reason I do it is to pool the storage space into a single location. (x2 128 = 256GB).

 

Edit: you will get loading time improvements in games, but no more FPS etc...

Thanks I'll go for it then!