Advice on SSD organization

[Tweed]

I need advice on how to choose my storage on my PC:
-1TB 850 Evo + 1 TB HDD
-500GB 950 Pro + 1 TB HDD
-2 500GB 850 Evo Raid 0 + 1 TB HDD

I want to try and make the smartest choice for the money. In the past I had planned to get a 500GB 950 Pro and a 500GB 850 Evo but that was too much $$$.

What does RAID 0 mean? I see a lot of people talking about that about SSDs.
Is the 950 Pro really that noticeably faster than the 850 Evo? Like I want opening applications, booting up/down, etc. really fast or somewhat snappy.

[Moonzy]

500gb 850 evo + 1TB HDD

 

the 950 pro is much faster, but you wont notice it unless you're accessing files from it very often

 

and raid 0 itself is just dumb imo

[Tweed]

4 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

500gb 850 evo + 1TB HDD

 

the 950 pro is much faster, but you wont notice it unless you're accessing files from it very often

 

and raid 0 itself is just dumb imo

Well I plan to put my OS, entire adobe suite, a few games, on my SSD. My PC is for graphic design, animations, 3D work, video editing, 4k stuff, light gaming, etc.

[done12many2]

13 minutes ago, Tweed said:

I need advice on how to choose my storage on my PC:
-1TB 850 Evo + 1 TB HDD
-500GB 950 Pro + 1 TB HDD
-2 500GB 850 Evo Raid 0 + 1 TB HDD

I want to try and make the smartest choice for the money. In the past I had planned to get a 500GB 950 Pro and a 500GB 850 Evo but that was too much $$$.

What does RAID 0 mean? I see a lot of people talking about that about SSDs.
Is the 950 Pro really that noticeably faster than the 850 Evo? Like I want opening applications, booting up/down, etc. really fast or somewhat snappy.

Having both a 512 GB 950 Pro M.2 and a RAID consisting of 850 Evos, I can tell you your best for an OS drive would be a single 950 Pro (if it's cost effective for you) or a single 850 Evo.  I'd avoid the RAID on your OS drive.  Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of RAID 0 setups and run several of them myself, but even though I have in the past, I would no longer RAID my OS drive.  There's just too much unpredictability.  If you set it and forget it, you'd probably be fine, but if your constantly adjusting things like myself, stick with a single fast SSD for your OS.

[Moonzy]

1 minute ago, Tweed said:

Well I plan to put my OS, entire adobe suite, a few games, on my SSD. My PC is for graphic design, animations, 3D work, video editing, 4k stuff, light gaming, etc.

then 500gb 950 pro + 1tb HDD

[done12many2]

1 minute ago, Tweed said:

Well I plan to put my OS, entire adobe suite, a few games, on my SSD. My PC is for graphic design, animations, 3D work, video editing, 4k stuff, light gaming, etc.

You can still install the OS and all software on one 512 GB 950 Pro and output your work to another drive.

[Tweed]

3 minutes ago, done12many2 said:

Having both a 512 GB 950 Pro M.2 and a RAID consisting of 850 Evos, I can tell you your best for an OS drive would be a single 950 Pro (if it's cost effective for you) or a single 850 Evo.  I'd avoid the RAID on your OS drive.  Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of RAID 0 setups and run several of them myself, but even though I have in the past, I would no longer RAID my OS drive.  There's just too much unpredictability.  If you set it and forget it, you'd probably be fine, but if your constantly adjusting things like myself, stick with a single fast SSD for your OS.

Why should I separate my OS from my other commonly used applications on 2 different SSDs? So just like have a 120GB SSD just for my OS, and have like 500GB or so for all my other application? OS doesn't take that much space does it?

[done12many2]

 

1 minute ago, Tweed said:

Why should I separate my OS from my other commonly used applications on 2 different SSDs? So just like have a 120GB SSD just for my OS, and have like 500GB or so for all my other application? OS doesn't take that much space does it?

 

5 minutes ago, done12many2 said:

You can still install the OS and all software on one 512 GB 950 Pro and output your work to another drive.

 

Not sure if you understood what I was saying.  You can install your OS and all of the software that you use on one 512 GB 950 Pro.  The work you produce can then be outputted to a separate drive should it exceed the capacity of your OS drive.  You mentioned 4k stuff.  That will fill a drive fast.  So you set the software that you use to output files to a separate location.  Does that make sense?

[Tweed]

2 minutes ago, done12many2 said:

Not sure if you understood what I was saying.  You can install your OS and all of the software that you use on one 512 GB 950 Pro.  The work you produce can then be outputted to a separate drive should it exceed the capacity of your OS drive.  You mentioned 4k stuff.  That will fill a drive fast.  So you set the software that you use to output files to a separate location.  Does that make sense?

Yeah I understand. So have my OS and applications on the 950 Pro, and when I'm done with whatever I'm doing, move it to the HDD. I think I just misunderstood your earlier message.

 

 

[done12many2]

Just now, Tweed said:

Yeah I understand. So have my OS and applications on the 950 Pro, and when I'm done with whatever I'm doing, move it to the HDD. I think I just misunderstood your earlier message.

 

 

Even better, point the software to output/save the file in the designated location of your choice so that you don't have to manually move it after it's complete.

[Tweed]

1 minute ago, done12many2 said:

Even better, point the software to output/save the file in the designated location of your choice so that you don't have to manually move it after it's complete.

So when I have my OS and application on my SSD, and say I'm working on a 4k video project. I can either save the project onto my SSD and transfer it later to my HDD OR I can automatically save the project to the HDD while the application itself is on and SSD, giving that snappy use.

[done12many2]

7 minutes ago, Tweed said:

So when I have my OS and application on my SSD, and say I'm working on a 4k video project. I can either save the project onto my SSD and transfer it later to my HDD OR I can automatically save the project to the HDD while the application itself is on and SSD, giving that snappy use.

Exactly.  As the encoding is occurring and the file is being outputted, it is actually being written to the alternate location of your choice.   

 

With my setup, the software I use to encode is located on my 950 Pro (OS Drive).  I output the work to my (4) 850 Evo SSDs in a RAID 0.  If I need to do more stuff with it, working off the RAID 0 is fast, but other than that, it sits there until the automatic nightly backup to my NAS.  All of this stuff happens automatically.