Does this seem right??

[Wonders3004]

i just want to say i know what everyone thinks about raid 0 ssds but hey i did it just for shits and giggles but got a really unexpected result. drives are 2x 500gb 960 evo basically my read went down below a single 960 evo and my writes actually went up a bunch. 

 

[KuJoe]

Yup, seems right. If you plan to keep the drives in RAID0 just make sure you're using either hardware or software RAID (avoid FakeRAID) and be sure to over provision by at least 10% unless you don't care about rebuilding the RAID frequently then YOLO it! 

[emosun]

I run raid 0 ssds , what does everyone say about them?

[Oshino Shinobu]

2 minutes ago, emosun said:

I run raid 0 ssds , what does everyone say about them?

It's more about RAID 0 in general that it's (in most cases) not worth the risks and problems for the speed benefits. 

 

EDIT: Though RAID 0 NVMe drives does seem especially pointless to me. 

[emosun]

1 minute ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

It's more about RAID 0 in general that it's (in most cases) not worth the risks and problems for the speed benefits. 

I only have sata 2 so it's definitely worth it to run them in raid

[KuJoe]

2 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

It's more about RAID 0 in general that it's (in most cases) not worth the risks and problems for the speed benefits. 

 

EDIT: Though RAID 0 NVMe drives does seem especially pointless to me. 

RAID0 is awesome for Steam libraries. I don't use HDDs anymore except for storing my OBS recordings and downloads so being able to grab a bunch of 128GB and 256GB SSDs when they're on sale and stripe them together is a cheap and easy way to expand my storage for something like video games where I can download them easily if one hard drive dies.

[Wonders3004]

43 minutes ago, KuJoe said:

Yup, seems right. If you plan to keep the drives in RAID0 just make sure you're using either hardware or software RAID (avoid FakeRAID) and be sure to over provision by at least 10% unless you don't care about rebuilding the RAID frequently then YOLO it! 

thats the thing i cant run the samsung nvme driver or magician which i knew getting in to how would i go about provisioning them 

43 minutes ago, emosun said:

I run raid 0 ssds , what does everyone say about them?

i have read so many posts about people bashing raid 0 ssds that its unreal " dumb idea, only for synthetic benchmarks dont do it bla bla bla, i get it my the chance of failure is higher to fail but i have been running raid 0 ssd since the very first ocz vertex. although i might break this stripe since the 2 out of 3 of my m.2 ports support it and one of them cancels out 4 of my sata slots which im not sure im ok with i just dont want to change slots now since i just finished my hardline and the middle slot is under my gpu and it will be a pita to put it in there i just wish those asus hyper m,2 cards would come out soon so i can run raid 0 vroc and just throw both on the card

[KuJoe]

2 minutes ago, Wonders3004 said:

thats the thing i cant run the samsung nvme driver or magician which i knew getting in to how would i go about provisioning them

When you build the array leave 10% free.

[Wonders3004]

2 minutes ago, KuJoe said:

When you build the array leave 10% free.

what just make a 100gb partition? btw running x299 gigabyte ultra gaming board 

[KuJoe]

Actually it looks like Windows software RAID does support TRIM for striped arrays (RAID0) so you should be fine if you don't over provision your disks.

[Wonders3004]

50 minutes ago, KuJoe said:

Actually it looks like Windows software RAID does support TRIM for striped arrays (RAID0) so you should be fine if you don't over provision your disks.

im using the ez raid from my bios on my gigabyte x299 board

[KuJoe]

Just now, Wonders3004 said:

im using the ez raid from my bios on my gigabyte x299 board

Ouch, avoid FakeRAID at all costs. Setup the RAID in Windows (Disk Management) instead.

[Wonders3004]

31 minutes ago, KuJoe said:

Ouch, avoid FakeRAID at all costs. Setup the RAID in Windows (Disk Management) instead.

tbh ill probably just stick with 2 separate drives the extra write speed isnt worth losing 4 of my sata ports maybe ill try it again in the future when vroc isnt such a mystery