Raid 0 SSDs worth it?

[smokeyvandenberg]

Hay guys.

I was wondering if putting 2 samsung 850 EVO 250GB in a raid 0 would be worth it or not? I'm planning on using the 2 SSDs in raid to install windows and other software such as photoshop,  after effects etc. As for my games I have 2 WD black drives in a raid 0 wich I'm sure is sufficient.

 

The reason why I want to use the SATA raid is because of my cpu.... I'm running the i7 5820k. The cpu only has 28 pcie lanes wich I don't think will be enough for a gpu a capture card and a m.2 storage solution. Any advice is welcome

 

Thanks in advance

[knightslugger]

GPUs are fine even on PCIe 8x. and a m.2 PCIe 4x SSD is only going to use 4 lanes, so that's 12 out of the 28, leaving another 16x. If your GPU runs fine on 8x, how much does your capture card REALLY NEED?

 

If you don't care about your data, a SSD RAID 0 is lightning fast, but you lose one uncorrectable bit, and the array is done and you lose everything.

 

Worth it? i guess that's a question only you can answer.

[itsmyjobtoknow]

GPU - 16 Lanes right there 

Capture card - 4 Lanes, rarely do I see 8x capture cards

M.2 Storage - 4 Lanes at most.

 

 16 +4 + 4 = 24...

 

24 != 28

[smokeyvandenberg]

So what do u think is faster 2 SATA SSDs in raid 0 or 1 m.2 ssd?

[itsmyjobtoknow]

1 minute ago, smokeyvandenberg said:

So what do u think is faster 2 SATA SSDs in raid 0 or 1 m.2 ssd?

Please quote the previous post that you are replying to...

 

Any reason why you want a "faster" ssd?

[SCHISCHKA]

8 minutes ago, smokeyvandenberg said:

So what do u think is faster 2 SATA SSDs in raid 0 or 1 m.2 ssd?

i put 2 SATA SSD in raid0 and I found no usable benefit. I do not use RAID for OS because there is a bit of extra time taken in booting to build the RAID array. For the price of 2 SSD you oculd prob go with a PCIe SSD

[knightslugger]

10 minutes ago, smokeyvandenberg said:

So what do u think is faster 2 SATA SSDs in raid 0 or 1 m.2 ssd?

2 SATA SSDs = ~1GB/s (525MB ea)

1 NVMe = 1.5GB/s and usually much higher IO/s

 

 

[smokeyvandenberg]

Thanks for the help guys. I got the Samsung 950 evo NVMe

[Interesting Reading]

I gave up on RAID 0, because it is too easily for the parity to get corrupted.

If you do go RAID 0, be sure to use a UPS, and hope your PC never locks up.