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Raid 0 worth it

Hi, I am planning to get an SSD as a boot drive and get two 1Tb HDD and tun them in raid 0 so games load faster. Is it worth going for raid 0 or should I just get a 2Tb HDD?

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no, raid on consumer motherboards sucks

just use a single HDD

its fast enough for games

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I personally think it´s not worth it, really. A friend of mine had the same configuration and the RAID broke apart when he reinstalled windows or something which ended in 2 HDDs with corrupted files. I´d either recommend 2TB or 2x1TB with RAID 1 to have real redundancy in case one busts.

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Just now, MatthewLynch said:

Hi, I am planning to get an SSD as a boot drive and get two 1Tb HDD and tun them in raid 0 so games load faster. Is it worth going for raid 0 or should I just get a 2Tb HDD?

thanks

A software RAID 0 is a terrible idea it you are not having an UPS and ECC memory. And the hardware controllers on the consumer MoBos are also quite terrible when they expereince a sudden power loss. If you can, use ~50 GByte of your SSD as cache for the HDDs if you really need more speed.

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