Different SSD's and RAID 0.

[MysterioJames]

Hello Everyone.

 

I have a question that I cant seem to find a definitive answer on QUORA or GOOGLE.

 

Ok I have 2 HyperX FURY 480GB SSD's in my PC.

 

I saw a 480GB SanDisk SSD for $103.

 

If I bought it would it be compatible within my PC, even though it's a different SSD from the HyperX ones??

 

Do they go hand in hand with one another without issues??

 

Now onto my Raid 0 Question.

 

A few Best Buy friends on mine were saying they all had 3 1TB HDD's or SSD's in RAID 0 for Speeds (Primarily for Steam)...

 

Should I do that with my 3 SSD's once I get a 3rd one??

I've seen a couple PC Gamer Charts of Regular vs. RAID 0 SSD's and well.... Transferring a 10TB File at once in RAID 0... Is so so quick. From the Testing they did.

 

Thank You.

 

All Opinions and Answers are Respected and Read

[Oshino Shinobu]

Yes, it will work fine. You can have as many different brands in a system as you like, consumer components are very rarely brand or manufacturer locked. 

 

RAID 0: No, you shouldn't. You effectively triple the chances of you losing data if you put 3 drives in RAID 0. It also becomes a massive pain to move the drives over to a new system or removing one or really doing anything with them. 

 

Yes, it does have speed benefits, mostly for sequential read/writes, but how often are you transferring large files across the same drive (if you transfer from the RAID array to an HDD, you'll still be limited by the HDD) or into RAM? If you need the sequential performance, get an NVMe drive, it will be even faster and you don't have all of the drawbacks of RAID 0. 

 

There's very, very few situations where RAID 0 is a good idea. The only one I can think of is if you're using it as a scratch drive and not actually storing anything important on it. Even then, you're better off going NVMe for a scratch drive and you can actually store things on it without constantly worrying about if it's going to suddenly disappear due to a drive dying, corruption or such. 

[dizmo]

Don't.

It's simply not worth it, especially if you're just using it for games.

@Oshino Shinobu pretty much summed up what I was going to say, except I'd say it more than triples the risk of failure, as not only can the drives fail, the RAID array itself can fail. 

[HKZeroFive]

Will it work? Yes. Is it a good idea? If you perceive the idea of tripling your chances of failures at no particularly significant performance improvement as bad (as you rightfully should), then no.

 

I mean, aren't your SSDs already fast enough?

[MysterioJames]

49 minutes ago, HKZeroFive said:

Will it work? Yes. Is it a good idea? If you perceive the idea of tripling your chances of failures at no particularly significant performance improvement as bad (as you rightfully should), then no.

 

I mean, aren't your SSDs already fast enough?

Your right lol, they are fast enough already. Won't be shooting for RAID 0 than  Thanks bro.