Storage Discussion

[Snappy]

I'm just starting up on this forum, and I have a question about PC storage using RAID. I have a Samsung 750 120GB SSD, and a Western Digital 1TB HDD, and I'm considering getting a second SSD so I can set up a RAID 0 configuration for the two SSDs and use the HDD as a backup. Is it worthwhile going through this, or should I stick to my plan of using the SSD for the OS and the HDD for storage of everything else?
Would greatly appreciate some feedback, thanks

[itsMilan]

19 minutes ago, Snappy said:

I'm just starting up on this forum, and I have a question about PC storage using RAID. I have a Samsung 750 120GB SSD, and a Western Digital 1TB HDD, and I'm considering getting a second SSD so I can set up a RAID 0 configuration for the two SSDs and use the HDD as a backup. Is it worthwhile going through this, or should I stick to my plan of using the SSD for the OS and the HDD for storage of everything else?
Would greatly appreciate some feedback, thanks

Personally, I would say yes. I think RAID 0 is just not worth because of the failure rate.

[Snappy]

35 minutes ago, itsMilan said:

Personally, I would say yes. I think RAID 0 is just not worth because of the failure rate.

So I'll stick to the original plan then. I just didn't know if using a RAID 0 config would actually benefit my system or make a considerable difference. Thanks for the advice! 

[itsMilan]

8 hours ago, Snappy said:

So I'll stick to the original plan then. I just didn't know if using a RAID 0 config would actually benefit my system or make a considerable difference. Thanks for the advice! 

It would make Some differente bit you'll have to trade that with saftey.

 

And also you're welcome.

[Snappy]

On 10/15/2016 at 9:21 AM, itsMilan said:

It would make Some differente bit you'll have to trade that with saftey.

 

And also you're welcome.

Yeah, I'd rather have a safer system over a faster one. And thanks again.

[Jovidah]

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485-13.html

 

Long story short; RAID 0 is a waste of money on SSDs, unless you need the higher sequential speeds for very specific workloads.

 

Simple explanation: an SSD is basically already one large RAID array. Putting SSDs in RAID thereby doesn't really add anything for most daily usage (except extra overhead).

[Snappy]

Thanks for the info. I made up my mind and I'll stick to the single SSD and HDD config I was originally going for