Samsung EVO 850 RAID 0

[Simon771]

So I'm currently using one Samsung EVO 850 250GB.

I have WD black 1TB, but it's causing too much vibrations in my case and it gets realy loud, so I can't use it.

 

I'm wondering about buying another samsung evo 850 250gb, and put them in raid 0. Total space will be 500gb in that case.

But for raid 0, there is no redundancy, so if 1 disk will fail, I will loose all data.

 

So I would like to ask what's SSD failure rate if anyone knows? 

 

Would you recommend me to use this configuration?

 

Pros/cons?

[failblox]

SSD failure rates are pretty low, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be carefree about putting a couple in RAID 0. I would only recommend you use that configuration if you back it up on a regular basis. If you know you're not going to back it up, don't do it.

[paradigm249]

4 minutes ago, failblox said:

SSD failure rates are pretty low, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be carefree about putting a couple in RAID 0. I would only recommend you use that configuration if you back it up on a regular basis. If you know you're not going to back it up, don't do it.

unless your not worried about the data. but if you really want more performence but cant use nvme drives, well up to your  decision

[Simon771]

9 minutes ago, failblox said:

SSD failure rates are pretty low, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be carefree about putting a couple in RAID 0. I would only recommend you use that configuration if you back it up on a regular basis. If you know you're not going to back it up, don't do it.

 

5 minutes ago, paradigm249 said:

unless your not worried about the data. but if you really want more performence but cant use nvme drives, well up to your  decision

 

Well I don't have essential data on my PC, but it would be a shame if I had to reinstall windows and all my games few times a year  

So I have Z97 anniversary motherboard that support raid 0 ... but what happends if I clear CMOS? Will it still recognise it as RAID 0, or I will have to format everything and start over?

[paradigm249]

4 minutes ago, Simon771 said:

 

 

Well I don't have essential data on my PC, but it would be a shame if I had to reinstall windows and all my games few times a year  

So I have Z97 anniversary motherboard that support raid 0 ... but what happends if I clear CMOS? Will it still recognise it as RAID 0, or I will have to format everything and start over?

hmm im actuallly not sure but curious. but it reset teh bios and if the raid comes from the bios. then maybe yes

[SamTheWelshDragon]

I'd go ahead and give that setup a go, though I'd be sure to mirror your data to an external mechanical drive every week, just to be safe. I've had a decent amount of experience with SSDs as I ditched mechanical drives entirely a number of years ago. Samsung SSDs start to slow down after about 5 years of daily use and drop off entirely around 2-3 years after the aforementioned speed drop. My previous SSDs that failed did not loose any data, they just refused to write anything but garbled nonsense and I was able to recover all data on them without any specialist tools.

[Simon771]

18 minutes ago, SamTheWelshDragon said:

I'd go ahead and give that setup a go, though I'd be sure to mirror your data to an external mechanical drive every week, just to be safe. I've had a decent amount of experience with SSDs as I ditched mechanical drives entirely a number of years ago. Samsung SSDs start to slow down after about 5 years of daily use and drop off entirely around 2-3 years after the aforementioned speed drop. My previous SSDs that failed did not loose any data, they just refused to write anything but garbled nonsense and I was able to recover all data on them without any specialist tools.

Well 5 years sounds okay for me  

Will be upgrading to M.2 after few years fore sure

I would be using that solution with RAID 0 for next 2-3 years at most.

[SamTheWelshDragon]

1 minute ago, Simon771 said:

Well 5 years sounds okay for me  

Will be upgrading to M.2 after few years fore sure

I would be using that solution with RAID 0 for next 2-3 years at most.

You should be just fine then. Go for it!