Should I RAID 0

[eeccrraaiigg]

Hey guys, I had a 2TB drive for mainly storing files (video,music,etc. whatever) and I recently acquired another 2TB drive. I was wondering is it worth it to put them in RAID 0 (nothing I will put on there would really bother me if I lost it), or should i just keep them seperate and have 4TB of space?

[Oshino Shinobu]

There'd be no point in putting the drives in RAID 0 if it's general storage, the speed increase isn't going to matter with that. You'd just be making it more likely to lose data. Keep the drives separate. 

[Enderman]

If you don't really care about the data on them then sure.

[eeccrraaiigg]

17 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

There'd be no point in putting the drives in RAID 0 if it's general storage, the speed increase isn't going to matter with that. You'd just be making it more likely to lose data. Keep the drives separate. 

You know I really assumed this, and I almost didn't even ask the question, but I just wanted something to do! lmao cheers

[Southbit]

If you're not worried about the data then put them in RAID 0 as instead of having 2x 2TB volumes you'll have 1x 4TB volume which is just better to work with in my opinion.

[Oshino Shinobu]

2 hours ago, Southbit said:

If you're not worried about the data then put them in RAID 0 as instead of having 2x 2TB volumes you'll have 1x 4TB volume which is just better to work with in my opinion.

If that's all you want, just use JBOD and don't (theoretically) double the chances of losing all the data. Even if it's not important and it can be re-downloaded, losing data, especially terabytes of it, really sucks. 

[eeccrraaiigg]

1 hour ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

If that's all you want, just use JBOD and don't (theoretically) double the chances of losing all the data. Even if it's not important and it can be re-downloaded, losing data, especially terabytes of it, really sucks. 

Yeah I mean I considered jbod as well, now when I transfer files from a USB device to the drives would that be improved in a raid 0?

[Oshino Shinobu]

1 hour ago, eeccrraaiigg said:

Yeah I mean I considered jbod as well, now when I transfer files from a USB device to the drives would that be improved in a raid 0?

If your USB drive is fast enough to outperform a single HDD (normally HDDs cap at around 130-150MB/s or so) then yes, it should (theoretically) improve the effective write speeds to the drives.